If you look at the faces of people in the world, you will wonder why all people look so sad? Why do their eyes look like they have lost all hope? The reason is simple; the reason is repetition. Man is intelligent; repetition creates boredom. Boredom creates sadness because a person knows what will happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow... until he ends up in the grave, everything will be the same, the same.
Finkelstein and Kowalski are sitting at a bar watching the news on TV. The news shows a woman standing on the edge of a roof, threatening to jump down. Finkelstein tells Kowalski:
- I'll tell you what. Let's make a bet: if she jumps, I get twenty dollars. If she doesn't jump, you get twenty dollars. Is it coming?
“He’s coming,” says Kowalski.
A few minutes later, a woman jumps from the edge of the roof and falls to her death. Kowalski takes out his wallet and hands Finkelstein twenty dollars.
After a few minutes, Finkelstein turns to Kowalski and says:
- Look, I can't take these twenty dollars from you. I have to confess something to you: I watched that newscast during the day. It was a repeat.
“No, no,” says Kowalski, “keep the money for yourself, you won it fairly and according to the rules.” You see, I also watched this episode on TV during the day.
— Did you watch it too? - Finkelstein was surprised. - But why then did you accept the bet that this woman would not jump?
“I couldn't believe she'd be stupid enough to do it twice.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru