NMP too hard to consider? Try this simpler variation on a theme. In our home we call it Rule Number 1.
Rule Number 1 states: "you are not allowed to care more about someone else's problem than the participants."
If you're not paying the price, don't think about it twice.
Toad
End of the sermonizing
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So perfect! I am surrounded by busybodies and am constantly telling them to worry more about what they are doing and less about what everyone else is doing!
Hope you are having a great weekend!
Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs of state. Suddenly a man bursts in, apoplectic with fury, shouting and stamping and banging his fist on the desk. The resident prime minister admonishes him: "Peter," he says, "kindly remember Rule Number 6," whereupon Peter is instantly restored to complete calm, apologizes, and withdraws.
The politicians return to their conversation, only to be interupted yet again twenty minutes later by an hysterical woman gesticulating wildly, her hair flying. Again the intruder is greeted with the words: "Marie, please remember Rule Number 6." Complete calm descends once more, and she too withdraws with a bow and an apology.
When the scene is repeated for a third time, the visiting prime minister addresses his colleague: "My dear friend, I've seen many things in my life, but never anything as remarkable as this. Would you be willing to share with me the secret of Rule Number 6?" "Very simple," replies the resident prime minister. "Rule Number 6 is 'Don't take yourself so damn seriously.'" "Ah," says his visitor, "that is a fine rule." After a moment of pondering, he inquires, "And what, may I ask, are the other rules?"
"There aren't any."
Inimitable, I love it. thank you
great first post of the year, sir. printing this one out.
Took me years to learn this lesson.
Mind if I steal this? I may have tee shirts made for certain folks of my acquaintance.
Patsy what is mine is yours
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