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What You Won’t Do
A few weeks
ago while I sat waiting for a flight, a guy sat near me and began to, as
the young folks say, “chat me up.” –Maybe it’s the British who say that,
anyway, he wanted to know if I was married and why I wasn’t. He wanted to know
what I look for in a man and what I like to do.
My flight
was delayed, so I decided to help him with the book he was writing.
I told him
that I liked to fish but I hadn’t done it in a long time. I’m pretty sure I had
that far off look as I spoke about the peace of fishing, but when my mind came
back to my seat at the airport gate, I noticed that the guy was frowning.
“I hate to
fish,” he said. “It’s so boring.” He said that he’d gone fishing when he was a
kid and could not stand it. The guy was a long way from being a kid, but I was
not writing the book he was.
He went on
to tell me all about his friend who loved to fish and how his friend could fish
all day.
I laughed
and he asked why and so I told him. “I think you should introduce me to your
friend.”
My flight came and I thanked him for
the lesson. He asked me which lesson that was, and I told him that I had
learned to no longer lead with a dislike.
This week and
every week that follows, check yourself to see how often you lead with what you
won’t do.
Are you really representing who you
are by divulging what you don’t know or like?
When you write the book about your
own life, will it include what you did do or what you did not?
I got on the
plane, fell asleep and dreamt about fishing.
Be you, be well be
reminded.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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