All a matter of attitude (30th June)

Here’s a story I read recently

A man was taking a train to the new village to which he had been transferred. While chatting with an old lady he said “I am not sure what kind of people I will come across in the new place”. The old lady asked him “what were the people like in the village that you left?” “Oh, simply horrible!” said the man. “ “they were very selfish, didn’t want to help anyone and I was glad to get out of there” “I don’t know how you are going to cope in the new village then” said the old lady “because the people there are also like that”.

After a few days the old lady met another young man from the same village on his way to his new place of work. He voiced the same concern and the old lady asked him the same question. The man smiled and said “They were very good people, took very good care of me and were always ready to help” “Then you should not have any reason to worry, the new village has pretty much same kind of people” said the old lady.

Was the old lady speaking the truth or lying to the young men?

She was speaking based on her study of the men’s attitude towards life and people they met.