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It is easy to advise others not to worry, but difficult for oneself to follow the same. Narrate an experience which made you realise the truth of this statement.
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Solution
adivse – always easy – friends or relatives – personal life, professional life or educational life – personal life of friends – love, betrayed, robbery etc- professional life of friends – colleagues harrassment, no promotion, no increment, more workload etc – difficult to follow the same – we personally experience the pain – it difficult to follow – understand but can’t follow – my personal example – once my friends colleague harrassed her a lot – convinced her – told her – asked her to ignore by giving different examples she suddenl agreed – but when my colleague harrassed me for a few days I asked the reason with a strong note – harrrassed her - finally she apologised – I forgive – She realised – I made her realise – finally I realised convincing others is easy but following the same is difficult.
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