Sometimes it's a person; on other occasions a practice or event. All of us have experienced a pebble in our shoe and we know the situation won't be improved until it is removed. Unfortunately, we don't always heed that wisdom. In too many instances, we choose to:
- Give the shoe to someone else and let that person live or deal with the pebble.
- Keep wearing the shoe that has the pebble but pretend that it's not really that big of a nuisance. We may even hope the pain will dull in time. This option often causes us to walk differently. Our confident stride is gone.
- Tell ourselves that the pebble is good for us and that the pain is character-building or just another perspective we should grow to appreciate.
Our ability to fool ourselves is the stuff of fairy tales and there's a magical part to this one: Sometimes, the pebble grows.
2 comments:
I was at a professional industry conference once and this 'speaker' was introduced, wearing a caftan. He then got everybody to put a coffee bean in their shoe, (though I didn't bother, I couldn't see the point) I still have no idea what he was on about. He didn't mention the coffee bean again until the end, and some passing remark that you'll have to work out the meaning for yourself.
Maybe that was the reason....who knows....
Bob,
That seems like the waste of a good coffee bean!
Michael
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