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While a boy was playing with a glass, he accidentally pushed it off the table and broke it. His mother was sitting close by. As her view of the glass was obstructed by a wall, she saw the shadow of the glass fall and  rushed hurriedly to the scene. Without taking another glance at the fallen glass, she immediately started scolding the boy. The boy listened to what his mother was saying and just before the situation became critical, he started to giggle. His mother, annoyed with the giggling, asked him angrily why he was giggling. The boy looked at his mother, and then looked at the broken glass. It was then that the mother realized that it was not the boy, but herself who was at fault. The glass was made out of toy building blocks and not real glass. The mother showed a chuckling smile on her face and went back to her work.

We sometimes start to take action in a situation before we even take a clear look at it, like the mother only saw the shadow and scolded the boy. In the situation this can lead to a misunderstanding. We would then try to get it clear, but after such a misunderstanding we start to wish we could have undone the wrongly done knot, and undoing a knot is never too easy. The boy and the mother may have just walked away with just a  chuckle and giggle on their face, but it isn't always that easy in every case.
*watching a shadow magic trick attempted by Criss Angel*