"So, "she asked, "how would you have handled it?"
She was sure that there was a
perfect way to handle the situation - actually any situation - if only she knew
what it was…
And there should be, right?
Reminds me of a story:
'A well known and respected shrink, who shall remain
unidentified, was going through a tough time back in his training days. His teacher, an even more famous and well known
person, who had been lecturing about how to respond appropriately to difficult
situations, couldn't miss the slumped shoulders and depressed face of his
student and asked him what seemed to be the problem.
"Well," responded our 'then learning to be a
wise person' friend, "earlier today I got into a really baaad fight with
my wife…"
"Ah," replied the very unruffled teacher
soothingly, thinking he had a perfect teaching opportunity, "That is only human."
(You can just
hear his gentle, rational tone, right?)
"Anger," he continued in his comforting voice,
"is a natural feeling and an experience we all have…"
"Yes," responded our sage-in-training,
"but we were in the garage when it happened and I picked up a rather large
tool and chased her around the room…"
As his no longer composed teacher and the other
students stared at him in horror, he jumped up, pumping his fist in the
air.
"Gotcha!" he yelled smugly with a giant grin
on his face.
And the moral of this story:
None of us are perfect and we all get caught with our
pants down a time or two…
What do ya say?
Been there?
Three great
ways to join the Human Dance party:
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