Thank you for sharing such a powerful story. It may be fictional or it may be not considering the number of such forwarded e-mails. Regardless, the first quote on Nature rings truer than any other for it exhorts us to shake off the shackles of society and be true to ourselves, whatever true self there is underneath all that layers of personalities.

Thanks.

divine spirits and good shall bless you!
veryheaven

I’m not getting the warm and fuzzies, here.

Manufacturing an experience for someone by tricking them is, on the face of it, wrong.

Reducing the level at which you operate, in order to trick someone who is less capable that you into thinking they are more capable than they are, is also wrong.

Don’t you hate it when people talk slower to the developmentally-challenged, or treat them like they are ‘retarded’?

That’s what these children did.

“Oh, look…I guess I should be nice to him, and let him win.”

That isn’t noble. The children didn’t “accept” him. They took pity on him.

That is called pandering, and it has never done any good for anyone.

(Oh, and just because this kid couldn’t understand that he was being treated like a pathetic freak who needs special treatment doesn’t make it any better.)