What’s So Great about Debating?
(Published earlier in my previous blog)
The usual question people keep on pestering me, and yet the answer is hard to put in a simple string of words. So let me tell you a story, which wasn’t really original, but one which really tells it all.
Once there lived a wolf who hunted day and night with its pack. It was a brilliant wolf, but shunned by its pack due to his differences. The lonely wolf would stare at the bright sky after the rains and claimed that he saw the “Seven Tails of the Sky”.
What he saw made him feel lonely in the boisterous club. The others laughed and howled and mimicked the mutt but he stood for what he believed he saw, until the day he found another cub from another pack, Nessy, whose eyes were bedazzled by the same sight. She saw what he saw, and they stayed true to one another.
Thus it was explained by the Wise Cappuchin Monkey that it is part of the nature of wolves not to see colours, but seeing things that others couldn’t see made them closer. “A bond,” said the wise primate, “that could never be forged by gold or silver, but by the special rhythm that beats in your hearts”.
Thus the same could be said of the debaters. The jokes that we had, our ideas, visions and ideal are at most of the times different from other students. Therefore, it is just natural for us to be eager to mingle and meet as often as we could, and what’s the best way other than a debate tournament. As they say it in the Boy Scouts, ‘Once a Debater, always a Debater’.
Yes we are different, and so what?
