Half Burnt Bread stories

Has this happened with you? A friend(s) of yours comes to you whenever he/she is feeling low and you are made to hear his tragic stories. I guess it happens with everybody of us and in fact we all do this. As and when we are feeling a little low, we all need somebody to hear us, somebody to console us, somebody to keep us motivated and keep us going.
These stories are like half-burnt breads. They are neither cooked nor raw.

I feel one should lend ear to these kind of stories as and when possible, as much as possible.

Firstly, you are helping your dear friend get out of the low phase of life he/she is going through currently and secondly he is teaching you some very useful lessons. 

Its something like this, a person is sad, feeling low when a dream is broken, an aspiration is shattered. Simply, when there is a feeling of losing something. I feel we can very well learn from this. We all have certain goals, certain targets for life and nobody wants to lose, to be a loser. For this, one should avoid wrong choices. Because your chances depends upon the choice you make. And to make the right choice, one should have the right knowledge, right understanding of the things one is involved in. We all keep looking around for inspiration.The half-burnt bread stories help us achieve this. They help us sharpen our knowledge, our understanding, acquire the right skill,right technique, right trick, get in touch with the right people and avoid the wrong ones. People who have half burnt bread stories are neither fully successful nor a failed person. So hearing out their stories, learning from their experience, we could avoid making the wrong choices they made, avoid making the mistakes they made. Its all about looking at the half cooked side of the bread and then learning the trick to avoid the other side from burning.

Simply make sure that our bread gets fully baked.