A group of 300 people lived on a mountain in a village that had beautiful long oak doors, lush green gardens and large windows with colored glasses. The house was one of the best houses in the locality and the group had quite an impressive status and reputation in the area.
Just behind the mountains..there was a stretch of a very fertile land quite rich in natural resources with ample of opportunities. But it was quite inaccessible to reach being on the other side of the mountains. In order to reach there it was required that the group walked through the mountain and for that a tunnel had to be built through the mountain. However, they could all climb down the mountain and walk through the plains over a very long route to reach there but that was not feasible given the constraint that at one time they all cannot together abandon their house.
So the meeting of some wise men in the group was called to find out a solution as exploiting the fertile land was imperative for the survival. The wise men decided that they need a team to dig a tunnel all the way from the mountains to the fertile lands.
The strategy involved first selecting a team of 5 people who would spearhead the conceptualization, implementation and keep track of the timelines. So the great team was selected after a lot of stringent and testing screenings.
With loads of expectations on their shoulders the 5 people team started to work on the task for which they were selected. After meticulously planned preparations for the assignment a suitable location was selected for digging the tunnel. All high speed digging equipments, flash lights, carry bags, etc. items were procured and inventoried to ensure that the process does not stall at anytime due to any reason.
With a proper season to support the digging exercise, the team started on their task of digging the tunnel. In the job some other responsible men from the village joined the team to help them in any small or, big way that was possible. The task was supposed to be done only in day away from the civilization as at night there was a serious threat of dangerous animals in the forest. Moreover, only few wise men were told about the tunnel as there were always spies from the fertile lands in the village who were searching for information at all times to foil any development plans for the village.
Finally the day came when the tunnel was almost on the verge of completion. Now for the job to be finished at the earliest it was required that the tunnel should be further dig by maximum number of people. So the 5 member team asked for the support of all the 300 people and requested them to come along on the D-date, so that all of them can together move ahead and complete the final part of the tunnel.
Unfortunately, 1/2 of the people all of a sudden were sick on the D-day. Another 1/4th had some errands for which they were out of station on the same day. While the remaining 1/4th suffered amnesia so they forgot the time and place where the tunnel was being dug.
So alas....all those who were finally digging the tunnel on the D-day where the 5 stupid people who were on the first place selected for the job and some others who had been with them all through the beginning to help them.
After an exhaustive work of endless days and nights..the tunnel was eventually opened for the commoners from the village. Amazingly the villagers had the concern that why the tunnel was not well polished?why the walls were not shining like a mirror? why the lights used for the tunnel were not designer ware?
After all they said...the 5 member team was given ploughs to dig the tunnel...and time to dig. They said...the team worked as a 'black box'. They should have got the designers from the fertile lands and got the tunnel designed!'. Moreover, they said 'They should have told the villagers long before that they were digging a tunnel so that there friends from the fertile lands could have blocked the other side of the tunnel'.
The bottomline....the verdict of the villagers...the 5 member team was crazy to dig an infancy tunnel...after all the villagers had already made new good roads in their village plus also changed the name of the village from 'Hill Top' to 'Highly fertile lands'. So how can the distant fertile lands have something special which can be better than their own little unaccessible nice village.
disclaimer*: The author loves the village's 5 member team b'coz it takes a lot to be humble and perform against all odds and oppositions. Therefore, the readers who find this blog offending are free to call this blogger crazy too.
6 comments:
goood....bas 300 no. kaha se aaya wo samajh nahi aaya..
Sir...an easy mapping fr an XLer...Awsum wrk.....But I differ u on the point that those 5 guys wud have faced so many odds and opposition frm the villagers..as a majority of those 300 knew that these 5 were the rite ppl fr digging the tunnel...Also, they knew that across the fertile land lies a big patch of civilization....but a mountain and a river blocks the way...they also knw that these 5 ppl have the capability and the past experience fr digging another tunnel..but they mite get exhausted in the process... so they will find and train the best ppl from villagers who cud dig a tunnel as well as help each individual villager to cross the river...Bt a few ppl might have been rite on their part by asking abt the whereabouts of debris and rocks....coming out during digging the tunnel as they cud hav used those to build their houses or something....bt no taking away of credit from those 5 and a FEW who helped during the process of digging the tunnel...I hope they will ensure a safe transit fr all the villagers thru another hurdle of RIVER..gr8 job...!!!!!
hey nice analogy....infact the ending was very apt....keep up the good work!
You have got good imagination, which is evident from few of the earlier posts....write more often :)
i feel you lost the plot in between but overall good idea.
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