A good advice.
Greetings my dear reader friends, I hope you are doing much better today than yesterday, today I bring you a story that I found very sobering and I hope it will be of much benefit to you.
It happened in a town in a far away country in a far away continent, where the elderly are respected for their wisdom. The people of the village, knowing that there was an old man among all the elders and that he possessed the greatest wisdom known to man, went to him often to present their problems.
The wise man spent most of his day attending to the people in a very cordial and helpful way, offering them the best advice according to the problem they had.
He had been doing this for most of his life, something began to disturb him and he realized that many citizens of the town came to his village two or three times a week and always with the same problem.
They would relate the same circumstances of their problems, only they would change places. Wherever they went, the same situation always occurred and the resolution of the problem was always the same, he realized that people did not follow his advice and only went to his village to tell their misfortunes over and over again.
So the wise adult decided to put an end to this situation in the best possible way. When the next day his village was filling up again with the same people as two or three days before, he told them a very funny joke, all the people were laughing so hard that they could not converse, when they calmed down, the wise man went back out and told the joke to everyone again, including those who had already heard the joke and those who were arriving, and so he continued telling the same joke so many times that the people were no longer laughing.
Someone annoyed said to the old man...
"Enough of the same old joke all the time! It’s not even funny anymore".
Then the wise man stood up in the middle of everyone and said…
"How is it possible that you have been able to get tired of laughing at hearing the joke for more than 20 times and yet you haven’t been able to get tired of yelling and crying over the same problem more than 20 times in the whole week."
People realized the meaning of those words and from there on were more careful in consulting their problems with the sage.
This happens with us more than we may realize. We often live complaining about everything, there is always something that bothers us and we do not see beyond our noses. It happens that to the people we have next to our relatives or friends we always go with the same tragic story.
We know what the solution to the problem is but we do not implement it because we prefer to tell the same problem over and over again to the same people.
I think what we are looking for by always repeating the same thing is to drain the sadness and helplessness of not doing anything to solve it, then we look for our friends and family who always listen to us and we tell them the same thing, don't you know what the solution is? Don't you know what the advice is that is repeated over and over again? You do! Of course you do!
If you don't seek to resolve your conflict by not accepting the advice you are given, don't waste your time always on the same thing because in the end everyone will get tired of hearing you and will leave you alone, when they see you coming in one way or another they will tell you that they have something important to do and they won't hear you again.
And it's not because they are bad friends... it's because they are tired of always hearing the same joke.
Change, try to apply the advice, there is always a way to do it and don't lose your friends and family out of boredom and tiredness.
I hope this story has helped you to look inside yourself and check if you are like the villagers who always repeat the same story with their problems, having and knowing what the solution is.
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It's really true, you get people who tell you the same story over and over again on the same day, haha.