A young couple moves into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast the young woman sees her neighbour hang the wash outside.
" The laundry is not very
clean", she said, "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she
needs better laundry soap."
Her husband looked out at
the washing but remained silent.
Every time her neighbour
would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same
comment.
About two weeks
later the young woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line
and said to her husband : "Look! She has finally learned to wash correctly!
I wonder who taught her
this."
The husband said: "I got up
early this morning and cleaned our windows."
Now that's an interesting story
.
You're not going to believe it
but something similar happened to me...
For many years I used to look at
the college and the world and people I knew and worked with and the work that I
was doing and practically all of life itself through a somewhat
uncleaned window.
OK, OK, so it was a stained
glass window and looked pretty like that but still it was not all that
clean and what I saw through it was kind of blurred and not so
beautiful.....
Then you know what I did?
Since I did not have anyone else
to do it for me.... I had to do it myself so I did it :
I opened the
window!!
And suddenly a lot of things
looked differently beautiful and natural and clear.
Just like it was meant to
be and actually was.... !
I do not easily jump to
first-sight and first-impression conclusions now.
I check on my windows
first - clean or dirty, open or closed, - and then I relate to what I
see.
Sometimes, though, I mess
up and judge wrongly. If I do that then I generally correct myself and apologise
for it. Most people can handle and appreciate well meant and sincere
apologies .
And carrying on after that is a
whole lot easier...
There is always so much to learn
from windows and water bottles and kites and birds and flowers and all the
rest...
In the end much of
the world around us is as we see it through windows or glasses
or experiences we have had
earlier or attitudes we have developed over the years...
Cleaning up our windows or
opening up our lives does more good to us than it does to what is out there
beyond...
Doing it right away
is a good time to be doing
it.... don't you think ?
More happy and cleaned-clear
windows to you there! And more beautiful sights that you open yourself to seeing
and experiencing!
Bookmark with:
Deli.cio.us
Digg
reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon
Newsvine
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|