How to deal with the limitations of those around you?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Acharya Prashant: Shweta is saying we all are limited and we may have this interaction here but as I move into the world, the so-called real world. I only encounter limitations.

The help that we are talking about is not always forthcoming. But then Shweta, why do I need to be dependent upon somebody else? We have said life itself is the biggest help.

Life itself is the biggest help.

Others are limited but it depends upon you, whether you allow others limitations to become your own limitations. We might be living in the world of blinds but that does not mean that we too close our eyes. Yes, of course, there is great pressure upon us to do that.

You know there is a story. There was a village. And that village had only one well from where everyone drew water. Someone came, some mischievous fellow came and put a poisonous drug in that water and now that water became such, whosoever will drink it will go mad. Everybody in the village drank that water except for one man. He looked at the people around him, he looked at their insanity and he understood that drinking this water would make him insane. He said I will not drink this water.