I saw this story and thought it was a great reminder for everybody to be more... I'm not sure exactly. Understanding? Willing to share? Nice? Ha I don't know, but it is a pretty good story.
A young lady was waiting for her flight in the boarding room of a big airport. As she would need to wait many hours, she decided to buy a book to spend her time. She also bought a packet of cookies. She sat down in an armchair, in the VIP room of the airport, to rest and read in peace. Beside the armchair where the packet of cookies lay, a man sat down in the next seat, opened his magazine and started reading. When she took out the first cookie, the man took one also. She felt irritated but said nothing. She just thought: "What a nerve! If I was in the mood I would punch him for daring!" For each cookie she took, the man took one too. This was infuriating her but she didn't want to cause a scene. When only one cookie remained she thought, "Ah, now what will this abusive man do now?" Then, the man, taking the last cookie, divided it into half, giving her one half. Ah! That was too much! She was much too angry now! In a huff, she took her book, her things and stormed to the boarding place. When she sat down in her seat, inside the plane, she looked into her purse to take her eyeglasses, and, to her surprise, her packet of cookies was there, untouched, unopened! She felt so ashamed!! She realized that she was wrong.. She had forgotten that her cookies were kept in her purse. The man had divided his cookies with her, without feeling angered or bitter... while she had been very angry, thinking that she was dividing her cookies with him. And now there was no chance to explain herself.. nor to apologize.
Wow. That was a lot longer than I expected. And the writing is terrible and I don't know if it's a true story or not... but regardless of all those things the message is the same. Don't jump to anger. Take of that what you will. Hopefully you have learned something good from this, I know I have.
Also.
In communications we were talking about relationships. It was great.
Stanton likened relationships to pushing someone out of a building. You know those people who you don't want to have a long term relationship with but you don't want to hurt their feelings?? In the words of Mrs. Stanton and I quote (loosely.. it's not exact, I did the best I could remember):
"You're gonna kick a person out of a building but you don't want to hurt their feelings, so you drag them around and lead them on and soon enough you're on the 13th floor. That's when you kick them out. Either way they're falling out of the building, it's going to hurt, but see if you kick them out on the 1st floor there's a lot less splatter."
Then she went on to say if you take the elevator up to the 13th floor when the earthquake hits you can't find the stairs and you don't know how to get back down.
What I learned?
The best things in life take time
