The blind men and the elephant

The 'blind men and the elephant' story is a famous old story about a group of blind men who all touch a different part of an elephant, and they each think they are touching something different.

The story starts when a group of blind men hear about this giant animal called an elephant. They've never seen one before, and each of them wants to find out what it is like. They can't see the elephant, so they decide to try and touch it to find out what it is.

Each blind man touches a different part of the elephant - one touches its trunk, one touches its leg, one touches its tail, one touches its ear, and so on.

Each blind man tries to describe the elephant based on the part that he touched: the man who touched the trunk thought the elephant was like a big snake; the man who touched the leg thought the elephant was like a big tree trunk; the man who touched the tail thought the elephant was like a rope; the man who touched the ear thought the elephant was like a big fan.

They argue and argue, each insisting that their description of the elephant is correct, but in reality they weren't all right - the elephant was made of many different parts and no one man could describe the whole animal himself.

The story teaches us that we can't always judge something based on just one perspective - we need to look at the whole picture to truly understand it.