THE COCONUT EYES

-Chauhan Shiv Prasad
We all might have experienced the situation where you fail to convince other (boss, wife, friend, teacher, parents, kids etc.) by all means and employing all knowledge and efforts, and we say that I was unable to do well or I am not worth his/her consideration, some where I was lacking etc.; I know that the answer would be surely “yes”. This is due to the concept I term as coconut eyes lets understand it in more detail. As the coconut is opaque and does not allow the light to pass through it and we can’t see through it similarly if we are prejudiced (have coconut eyes) we can’t see the reality and contradict it, as our thinking is being hampered by the prejudiced thoughts i.e. the mind is already preoccupied by prejudiced thoughts and there is no place for analyzing new thoughts.
As rightly said in Geeta “truth is in front of your nose “but people are not able to see it. It’s not always your own fault but many a times the other person is not able to listen what you want to tell due to partial listening. That does not mean he does not listen to you, but it is equally true that if the person is prejudiced about you then he becomes selective listener and listens to whatever he wants to and would try his best to put you down.
Being prejudiced (coconut eyes) is like a pigeon who closes his eyes when he sees the cat and thinks that even the cat is not able to see him; but this is not the reality. The cat can very well see it as well as eats him up. It can also be related with the incident when we deny something because we haven’t seen or even never thought of such a thing. Take for example of Alexander Gram Bell who founded the telephone and went to many companies to mass produce and market the product but was laid down by many, not because the telephone were not products worth marketing and they don’t have any demand but due to coconut eyes or lack of vision of those industrialists who thought it as failure and could not see the future. With the birth of new company “GE” which produced these phones and marketed them for the first time in the world all mouths which were contradicting had no words and were crying on their fate. Take for example of formation of Wall-mart by Sam Walton; before making of Wall-mart the concept of retail outlets for direct marketing was never being thought of. But the success of Wall mart made not only everyone to believe in the concept but also the new way of marketing in the 21st century.
When something is beyond solution at Intel what they do? It does not means that solution does not exist but at that very moment they turn to the most admired source which we always neglect and does not thing worth considering and that is the “children” of school that too of lower standards; it’s great to know that Intel people found many solutions in those classes only. So are leaders in the computers because they are not prejudiced but are adaptive and ready to learn new things from anyone who knows anything worth learning.
Or take example of India a few years back, developed nations used to look it with sympathy due to poverty, low infrastructure, non-hygienic conditions of living, corruption, illiteracy etc. nobody ever thought that this nation can ever become self sustained as well as leader in Information technology, so does that meant that we are not leaders in I.T. ?
It’s the bitter truth that needs to be admitted that what we think as impossible is not always impossible but it might be possible in some body’s thoughts and he/she may be capable in making it a reality. So don’t be prejudiced and do try to understand others with open mind and give him/ her full chance to prove him/her self. So don’t have the coconut eyes and let it be the tissue eyes so that light can penetrate through it and can see the world as it is.