Eyes to See: Marc Gafni

A story about love. About having eyes to see. A story I’ve told for many years.

It’s about Jack, a very busy businessman from Chicago.

Jack’s friends were constantly saying to him, “Jack, there’s more to life than doing deals and chasing women.” Of course, Jack couldn’t imagine what that could be and so continued as usual. Finally, a woman he was dating told him the same thing — “You know Jack, there is more to life than doing deals and chasing women.” He certainly did not believe her, but he did not want to offend her. She was, after all, a woman. So he said to her, “Like what?”
“Like Art!,” she responded defiantly.
“Okay,” he said — rising to the challenge, “Where is the best art in the world? — We’ll just go and see if you’re right.”

So the very next week he had his private plane fly him and his lady friend to Paris. Upon arrival, he hired the best art guide in the city and paid a fortune of money for a private night tour of the Louvre. They set off on their tour de Louvre. I have to say that Jack was not very impressed. In every room, he would point out why the art was really no big deal, not so beautiful and certainly not worth the money he had spent to get there to see it. The guide was getting more and more angry with each proceeding remark but being a professional he held his piece.

At the end of the tour, he could be silent no longer. “Monsieur Jack, you don’t seem to understand,” he said most succinctly. “When you go through the Louvre, it is not the Louvre which is on trial. It is you who is on trial.”

Do you have the eyes to see?

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