TATTOO ON MIND

In his book Power of The Plus Factor, Norman Vincent Peale tells how he came across a tattoo studio in Kowloon in Hong Kong.

In the window, among samples of words, one could have tattooed on one’s body the words, Born To Lose.
Peale entered the shop and asked the Chinese tattoo artist, “Does anyone really have the terrible phrase, ‘Born To Lose’ tattooed on his body?”

He replied, “Yes, sometimes.”

Peale said, “But I just can’t believe that anyone in his right mind would do that.”

The Chinese artist simply tapped his forehead and said in broken English, “Before tattoo on body, tattoo on mind.”

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Perspective

Once a man dug a well by the side of a road. For years later, grateful travellers talked of the Wonderful Well.
One night, a man fell into it and drowned. After that, people avoided the Dreadful Well.

Later, it was discovered that the victim was a drunken thief who had left the road to avoid being captured by the night patrol, only to fall into the Justice Dispensing Well.

People can have different views about the same thing based on what they hear or what they are told or what they experience.