“Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.” – Sugar Ray Leonard
Unfortunate Last Words
- What does this button do?
- It’s probably just a rash.
- Are you sure the power is off?
- Yeah, I made the deciding vote on the jury, so what of it?
- The odds of that happening have to be a million to one!
- Pull the pin and count to what?
- Which wire was I supposed to cut?
- I wonder where the mother bear is?
- I’ve seen this done on TV.
- Watch This!
Rooted, Yet Flexible
Trees look strong compared with the wild reeds in the field. But when the storm comes the trees are uprooted, whereas the wild reeds, while moved back and forth by the wind, remain rooted and stand up again after the storm has calmed down.
Flexibility is a great virtue. When we cling to our own positions and are not willing to let our hearts be moved back and forth a little by the ideas or actions of others, we may easily be broken. Being like wild reeds does not mean being wishy-washy. It means moving a little with the winds of the time while remaining solidly anchored in the ground.
A humorless, intense, opinionated rigidity about current issues might cause them to break our spirits and make us bitter people. Let’s be flexible while being deeply rooted.