One day, Hanu and Ganu went on a pleasant drive. Suddenly, Hanu saw an interesting sight and pointed it out to Ganu, who was driving.
They both saw a donkey on a house braying loudly. Clearly, it was scared and trying to balance itself on the roof so as not to fall. Hanu laughed out loud and said, “There is a sight one does not see every day! A donkey on a rooftop! I wonder what it is doing up there?”
Ganu replied, “Yes, it is not every day one sees that sight. I wonder how it got up there?”
“Huh?”
“Well,” said Ganu pensively, ”it could not have climbed up there by itself. It was probably put up there by somebody. “
Ganu continued, “A donkey is an extremely stubborn and strong animal, so it would be difficult to convince it to get up on a roof. It seems that more than one person would have had to put it up there–maybe even more than two. How do you drag it up to there roof? You would have to carry it up a ladder or string it up. You see what I mean?”
“Yes,” murmured Hanu.
“So I think it must be scared, being in an unfamiliar place. It is braying loudly in fear. It probably does not know how it got up there and wants to come down, but does not know how. It is unfortunate that in today’s world, the heads of many countries are elected into positions, but they find they cannot do the job and want to come down. I fear that they are talking more and doing less,“ said Ganu.
Hanu said pensively, “Interesting that you should bring the world situation up. The media is bringing up many things regarding the state of the countries and criticizing their methods. I am reminded of this quotation from Dickens: ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.’”
Ganu responded, “Aah, a good quote from Dickens’ book Tale of Two Cities. Yes, that quotation is usable any time. One of my favorite books.”
Hanu said, “You say that we put the current leader in his position. However, I did not cast my vote for today’s leader in the last elections. So I feel he is not my leader but he is the leader of the others who voted him in.”
As they arrived at their destination, Ganu said, “Well, that is not entirely true. You may not have voted for our today’s leader, but we as citizens of this country have voted for have democracy. And in a democracy, we agree that the people shall elect the leader by a majority vote. So, in short, if the donkey is put in a leadership position then we, by agreement, have decided he should be the leader. After all, that was what the majority of our country voted for during elections. Aha, here we are at our friend’s place. Let us talk more later.”
They got out of the car and knocked on their friend’s front door.