Many years ago a young man travelling through the countryside noticed that on many of the barns was a large bull’s-eye painted on it with an arrow squarely in the centre of the target. He thought he would like to meet the great archer, and asked around until he found out the name of the man, who lived in a nearby village.
He introduced himself, and asked the archer for a demonstration of his great skills. “Sure,” said the archer, and they walked to the outskirts of town to a barn. He carried his bow and a quiver of arrows and several buckets of paint and some brushes. He selected a barn site, and carefully took aim at the barn, and hit it squarely in the middle. Then he walked up to the arrow, and carefully painted the bull’s-eye around the arrow. He then proudly stood back and admired his work. The moral of the story is to not be misled by things as they sometimes appear. Often, things are not as they seem.
