" TRAGEDY "
Zardari visits a school.
In one class, he asks the students if
anyone can give him an example of a “tragedy.”
One little boy stands up and offers that,
“If my best friend who lives next door is playing in
the street when a car came by and killed him, that would be a
tragedy.”
“No” Zardari says, “That would be an ACCIDENT.”
A girl raises her hand.
“If a school bus carrying fifty children drove off a cliff,
killing everyone inside … that would be a tragedy.”
“I’ m afraid not,” explains Zardari. “That is what we would
call a GREAT LOSS.”
The room is silent; none of the other children dare
volunteer.
"What? " asks Zardari, “Isn’t there anyone here who can give
me an example of a tragedy?”
Finally a boy in the back raises his hand.
In a timid voice, he says:
“If an airplane, carrying Zardari and Gillani,
was blown up by a bomb, that would be a tragedy.”
“Wonderful !” Zardari beams. “Marvelous! And can you tell me WHY that would be a
tragedy?”
"Well, " says the boy, “because it wouldn’t be an accident, and
it certainly would be no great loss!”
