A STORY WE CAN CONTEMPLATE

Marie was a young sales rep who spent more time on an airplane than in her home. It was Friday evening…she was extremely exhausted and she was in an airport waiting for her plane. She decided to get some coffee and a pack of cookies for dinner.

Finally, she sat down with coffee and cookies in hand and settled into a good book. The cookies were sitting between she and another passenger so she reached over to grab one. After she did, he also dipped his hand into the pack. This irritated her that he would take her cookie without even asking but she didn’t want to be rude so she went on with her book.

A couple minutes later, she reached for another cookie and so did he. This went on until there was only one cookie left in the pack. He picked up the last cookie, broke it in half, took one half and left the other half for her. This really made her mad…how dare he eat her cookies and act so rudely!

She boarded the plane and when she sat down, she reached into her purse for her gum and found the unwrapped roll of cookies. She felt so bad because not only was she eating someone else cookies but she got angry at them for eating what she thought were her cookies. This man had shared with her without a thought of anger or selfishness. The problem is that she had no way of apologizing to him acting so childishly.

The Moral of the story is that there are four things that can never be recovered:

The stone…..after it is thrown

The word…..after it is said

The occasion…..after the loss

The time…..after it is gone

We are all amazing human beings….why sweat the little things?

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