Trick or Treat - a survival guide to health care
9 Follow me The Fox without a Tail: A fox was ensnared by a trap. In his desperate attempts to escape from the trap, he lost his tail. He thought that others would ridicule him
unless he glorified the loss. He called a meeting of all the foxes in the vicinity and advised them to cut off their tails. "The tail is ugly, heavy and gets dirty. It is good to be rid of it," he explained. But one fox observed, "My friend, if your tail had been intact, you would not be so keen to get our tails removed."
Meera was a health and fitness freak. She read about the health giving powers of
pyramids. She thought, "Why not a pyramid for myself?" and constructed a four metre tall pyramid in her garden. It had a central chamber where she used to sit and 'gather neutrinos and other health giving cosmic rays'.
Her neighbours and friends asked her about her latest fad. In reply, Meera glorified
the pyramid, its powers and how she bathes in the cosmic rays every day. Then one of her smart friends said, "Meera, if you had not wasted time and money in constructing this monstrosity in your beautiful garden, you would not be so keen on selling us this stupid idea."
Comments Meera is an example of innovative path breakers who avidly and often uncritically
accept anything new and novel. They also try to propagate and popularise these into fashion statements. It is in fact quite easy for the gullible to imagine 'the Emperor's new 31
