My DOG has an Excuse! Do YOU?
Experience. This is what happens when we try something for the first
time, we gain experience. We learn. We learn maybe do something
different the NEXT time to avoid the experience we gathered doing it
not so right the FIRST time. Carley (my yorkie) has learned the hard
way.
Carley was born and raised in the Valley of the Sun (Scottsdale), and
had never even seen snow until last year. This is when she went at full
speed ahead, flying right off the back deck, and sunk into a snow bank.
Immediately I came to her rescue and lifted her out, snow and all. She
looked like a snowball. I HAD to take a photo of it because it made me
laugh so hard to see the shell shocked look on her face.
Two days ago, we had another deep snow. Now, you and I probably would
have known better than to go zipping off of the back deck and land in a
snow bank AGAIN. Experience would have taught us that the consequences
of this would result in being shell-shocked, and left cold with snow
clinging to us. (Not to mention our human that took care of us would
laugh, and insist on capturing a "Kodak Moment" ....) Ahh, the
humiliation.
But, Carley is a DOG. And, although experience has taught her a few
things, she has short-term memory. Once again, she went leaping off the
deck and *whomp* right into another snow bank. History repeated itself.
I laughed, grabbed her, dried her off - same routine.
YOU, however, as a human being have the benefit of learning from your
experiences that produced a not-so-great result. You would have learned
that you don't go leaping off of the deck, landing yourself in a hole
surrounded by cold and clingy snow.
Why, I ask you, would you treat your relationships any differently?
Once you land in a cold hole with someone, and their false promises and
eloquent words pull you out - would you leap off the deck again doing
the same thing? How many times do you need to land in a cold snow drift
before it sinks in that you just don't want to be humiliated anymore -
what with all that wet snow clinging to you?
Food for thought on a Thursday.
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I'm available for your calls today.
And here to rescue you from any "Snow Drifts"
you find yourself falling into repeatedly.
Sending you angels,
Jane