ALL is grist that comes to the mill

Monday, August 9, 2010

When one is engaged in a do-or –dies campaign to achieve a clear goal or objective, whatever gain he may score in any aspect of his pursuit is considered welcome. All the advances he makes towards his goal are thought to be necessary and justifiable, though some of them may not be directly related to it. When a person is totally absorbed in the pursuit of his goal, his mindset may tend more to wards greed than need. This attitude is comparable to the stand of a fisherman who thinks that whatever is gathered in the net during a fishing operation is his private property, whether it is fish or anything else. In daily life such an attitude is not correct. It is always better to purse one’s goal in a legitimate and thoughtful rather than in a possessive way.

The second version of the proverb is almost synonymous with the first one except it is more assertive. The usage conveys a possessive mindset in a stronger way. Though a machine is chiefly meant to powder grinding grains, neither the machine nor the operator does care about what is crushed and powdered in the machine. In daily life, we find persons who mindlessly carry out their plans of action without caring for what happens to other people in the process. As long as their desires are satisfied, other person or things matter little to them.