On Jun 29, 9:23=A0pm, "Michaela" <my...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I've ****bably posted this story before and never tire of
> hearing it and perhaps someone here will get something
> new out of it too.
>
> I found it in Ken Keyes' "Taming Your Mind" (originally
> published in 1950). It is apparently fFrom "The Twelve
> Rules for Straight Thinking" by William J. Reilly.
>
> "... when a boy, I went fi****ng with three other boys. On the way
> to the river we decided that the 'catch' should be pooled and
> divided equally among all of us. And I agreed wholeheartedly.
> I felt that it was absolutely fair and square. But during the
> course of the day, I found that I was leading the rest in the
> number of fish caught, and my attitude towards the whole
> proposition of dividing the catch began to change. By the time
> the day was over and there was no further chance of anyone else
> catching as many fish as I had, I became violently opposed to
> our original proposition, and told the boys that I couldn't
> understand why a good fisherman should be penalised because
> of the incompetence and bad luck of his associates..."
>
> - Michaela
Sound like marriage to a T.
We both have made initial agreements on what our role would be.
Somewhere down the line, she
changed her mind, thinking what her role was unfair and she was doing
more than her share of the work.
My perceptions were equally the same as I thought I was pulling more
than my share of the load.
Wasn't there something about we can't predict external factors that
have an influence on our lives?
EB
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