Yesterday,
I was watching while my daughter tried to get a wasp out of the house. Her cat
wanted that wasp, too.
The cat
darted toward the wasp. My daughter pushed her away.
Undaunted,
the cat pressed forward again. Again
she was shoved away, this time less gently.
It took a
whack on the nose for the cat to hesitate – before she went for that wasp one
more time.
How many of
us get shoved and then give up? We have a goal and the way towards it gets
bumpy. It doesn’t feel good to
experience difficulty.
That cat
didn’t slink into a corner and sulk. She just kept coming back and would have
gotten her “goal” but my daughter had caught the wasp in a jar and then freed
it outside.
Our lesson?
Despite bumps, shoves, obstacles and rejection, we should persevere if our
goals are really important to us.
Ahh, if the
cat had gotten the wasp, it wouldn’t have been pleasant. But that’s another
fable.
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