Two homeless people lived in a forest near the city. One was blind and another lame; during the whole day in the city they competed with each other.
But one night their huts caught fire because the whole forest burned. The blind man could escape, but he could not see where to run, he could not see where the fire had not yet spread. The lame could see that there was still the possibility of escape, but he could not run away - the fire was too fast, wild - so the only thing he could see for sure was that the moment of death was approaching.
The two realized that they needed each other. The lame had a sudden clarity: "The other man, the blind man, can run, and I can see." They forgot all their competitiveness.
In these critical moments in which both faced death, they necessarily forgot all stupid enmity, created a great synthesis; they agreed that the blind man would carry the lame on his shoulders and thus they would function as one man, the lame can see, and the blind man can run. Thus they saved their lives. And by saving life naturally, they became friends; They left their antagonism. Source
