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On Request: Self-knowledge
Mar. 16th, 2010 12:28 amSo your friend wanders over to you and says, "Hey there! How's you?"
And you say "I'm not too bad, how are you?"
And they say "I'm doing pretty well, except I seem to have this elephant stuck up my arse."
And you look down and, lo and behold, your poor friend does indeed appear to be stuck with a rectal pachyderm count in excess of zero. And because they are your friend, you say the only thing you can, which is, "Bend over, mate, and I'll try and grab hold of the trunk."
But you don't make much headway at first. And your mate says "Erm, I can't help but notice that you've got one up your wrong'un as well."
It is foolish, although common, to say "Yeah, but we can only deal with one elephant at a time."
Wisdom lies in finding some way of either applying the solution to your friend's problem to oneself first, or in finding a single solution to both problems at once - be that a nice holiday, being nicer to each other, or going out and buying a mammoth tub of lubricant.
And you say "I'm not too bad, how are you?"
And they say "I'm doing pretty well, except I seem to have this elephant stuck up my arse."
And you look down and, lo and behold, your poor friend does indeed appear to be stuck with a rectal pachyderm count in excess of zero. And because they are your friend, you say the only thing you can, which is, "Bend over, mate, and I'll try and grab hold of the trunk."
But you don't make much headway at first. And your mate says "Erm, I can't help but notice that you've got one up your wrong'un as well."
It is foolish, although common, to say "Yeah, but we can only deal with one elephant at a time."
Wisdom lies in finding some way of either applying the solution to your friend's problem to oneself first, or in finding a single solution to both problems at once - be that a nice holiday, being nicer to each other, or going out and buying a mammoth tub of lubricant.
