One reason you never know the truth from these guys

There came a whisper at my office desk through one of colleagues who is in charge of air ticketing business. 

“You know, bro. There is a new travel agency who bought and blocked 30 seats over a flight to Kula Lumpur. Gosh! They are in trouble now, for all of tickets are not sold yet until the last minute and they only got a couple of days left over. Otherwise, they lost substantial amount of deposit.”

Their (the new agency) speculation might be like this. The flight seats are normally full with Burmese who intends to work in Malaysia in search for general works over there. Recently the demand decreasing, when new air ticketing agencies are mushrooming. The troubled agency has hold a hot potato and looking for those who can help selling them out. Quite impossible!

There are so many agencies coming up and existing ones because the travel agency business looks smart, lucrative and classy. People are like that. They always try to mimic what other is doing that they think it is profitable and great. They just don’t want to wait making proper research. In fact, it is a kind of tea shop business in Myanmar which is everywhere and everybody wants to have a bite of the business pie. One of the reasons is that it is easy to establish. This way, they start it. Easy entry, hard exit it is. Some are getting dull and gradually doomed. This recalls me a story here.

There is a village in rural part of central Myanmar. One year, a seasonal festival comes; there are make-shift huts around Zat Pwe (Burmese Drama Theater which performs all night long till dawn). All the villagers are wandering around the long stall of eateries, toys, astrologer booths, circus, merry-go-round etc. At a place, a signboard hanging over the façade of bamboo hut catches their curiosity. That says “Only 5 Kyats per person to view the Beautiful Person Alive.” Thinking 5 Kyats is not a big deal to see the World beauty, one villager initiates the entry. In few minute, man comes out. Exciting villagers outside of the hut are eagerly waiting for the response from the man.

“How was that?” Everybody yells. He said “yeah, not bad!”

So villagers in queue head for their turn to entry. Everyone comes out and hit the same response. Being doubtful, there is a man who is observing all the way through the crowd finally decided to have a go for himself for the beauty.

He pays “5 Kyats” at the door and gets in. There is a brown curtain dangling over a sign asking to pull it up to see the beauty. So he pulls. And there is nothing but a looking mirror. As a matter of fact, he sees his face.

Being ashamed and feeling stupid of how he was cheated, he comes out. Other pedestrians see him and ask. “Hey how was that?” Thinking if he says the truth, he will be laughed. He thinks whether his face looking in the mirror recently inside that god damn hut looks like! Was it ugly?

“Yes, it was Great!” He replies. Dawn has come. Busy festival of Village became calm and silent again. Nobody talks about the beauty they have seen because they were so tired that they fall sleep already.