All Are Intellectuals, But What Is Unpractical Intellectuality?
In this information age, there is no dearth of intellectuals around you. Observing many intellectuals around me, one story comes to my mind, which I want to share with you.
Two friends once went out to see a mango orchard.On entering the garden, they saw many beautiful creepers, fine tress full of ripe fruits, and well-grown plants.
One of these two friends had a calculating mind, considered himself as a great intellectual, he went on counting the number of leaves and the number of branches on each tree and the number of fruits and so forth.
The other friend who was an epicure, went to a tree, which had ripe fruits and started plucking and eating them to his heart’s content.
Meanwhile, the gardener appeared from nowhere and saw the two men in his garden. He came near to them and asked them to leave the garden immediately.
The second friend, who had eaten as many mangoes as he could eat, left immediately, while as the one who was counting trees and their branches, the intellectual one, was hesitant to leave the garden because he had not finished his calculation of trees and their branches.
The gardener had to forcefully throw him out of his garden.
So, I hope you can now understand the meaning of unpractical intellectuality.
