Never ever presume!

Folks, this is what I received through my email recently. The story it contained is most appropraite for what I have in mind. Let's read the story with some changes from me.

The Supernatural Power:
There was this case in this hospital's Intensive Care ward where patients always died in the same bed on Friday mornings around 9am regardless of their age, gender, medical history or medical condition. This puzzled the doctors. How could it be? It must have something to do with the supernatural: Why did death occur at that same bed around the same time every Friday? A black Friday?

So the puzzled doctors decided to go down to that particular ward to investigate the cause of the deaths. Come Friday morning, everyone at that hospital ward nervously waited for the terrible phenomenon to occur again. The new (unknowing) patient laid there.

Some doctors held wooden crosses, prayer books and other holy objects to ward off evil...and they waited.

8am, the patient was still alive... 8.30am...still breathing...

Just before the 'cursed' time, the door to the ward swung open... Then Ah Soh, the part-time Friday cleaner, comes in and unplugs the life support system so that she can use the vacuum cleaner!

So, unwittingly, this vacuum cleaner was the cause of the death of all those patients who had their life-support systems attached to that socket.

In this case, the mystery had been cleared. However, in life, we often jump to conclusions without further investigation. We believed the worst and the victims of our presumptions seldom recieve justice as after delivering judgement or forming opinions, we merely keep those opinions or judgements to ourselves.

Unfortunately, sometimes, the injustice continues as we no longer have that much faith or liking for the victim. In our mind, we sentenced him to a lower ranking among our friends. Worst, we may even delete him or her from our list of friends.

The victim may wonder a while, usually letting things be as the victim does not understand very well what has come to pass. There might be extenuating circumstances or factors which could have cleared the misunderstanding or judgements.

Therefore, we should never presume. If we wish to judge anyone's action or inaction, we should ask or find out from the person concerned. Unless, of course, if you do not value the person's friendship.