A friend and I were driving on four-lane highway when we encountered congestion caused by the parishioners of a church. The far right lane was all parked up and the lane just left of that had a number of cars with their flashers on — blocking another whole lane.

My friend remarked: "Stupid people!"

I told my friend, "They must be my brothers, because I also have done stupid things." (I have been reading many of the sayings of Gandhi lately.*)

We all had a big laugh over that and all the rest of the drive we noticed that we had lots of other relatives out on the road.

I count myself lucky to be one of the Gandhi's stupid brothers.
 

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*"Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy." 

—Mahatma Gandhi