Coincidence?
Yesterday someone posted something very negative in one of my WhatsApp group. I reacted: Have you verified this? He replied, "I have not learnt how to verify such things."
This morning I forwarded a very edifying anecdote from the life of the former president of India, Abdul Kalam - something that I had seen earlier in several places. Someone replied, "I don't believe such things. It's all made up stories."
Before lunch today I took a break from work and read an article in the Italian newspaper (I am posted in Rome) - La Republica. Title of the story : "Miracle in the train". It's about a young man in a wheel chair abused in a train, an old lady scolding the abuser, the abuser apologizing and, finally, making friends with the young man. The writer says he posted his story on FB and a lot of his readers accused him of making up the story.
A sad world, indeed, where everyone jumps to believe every negative story about everyone and it has become almost impossible to believe a positive story !!!
