Living in Hope

LESSON FROM A TIGER If one does not make oneself a target for another’s vengeance but lets everyone continue pursuing their own goal in life, then one is not going to find one’s own path blocked by others. J im Corbett, after whom a famous national park in India has been named, was an expert on the nature of tigers. He once wrote that: “No tiger attacks a human being unless provoked.” People who live in jungle areas where tigers roam will confirm the truth of Jim Corbett’s words. There is usually no cause for concern when one comes face to face with a tiger. Unless it is provoked or harbours deep-rooted suspicion of human beings—the beast will ignore one and continue on its way. And how does this suspicion form in some tigers? Tigers are by nature not ill-disposed towards human beings. Only very few of them can be called maneaters, and even they are not born as such. They become man-eaters, not through any fault of their