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asking, finding, grudges, ignorance, letting go, loss, moral, pettiness, receiving, trivialities, true story
Ask and you will receive
This is just a true story about two people and how we let trivial matters impact our lives, so we miss out on really good things.
Someone (I will call her Jenny)told me about an incident at her place of work and when I thought about the story, I felt I wanted to share it because there was an important lesson here.
Jenny and person (b) whom I shall call Susie were at work and apparently they had some sort of disagreement. It was over something petty: about how many nappies one person had changed for the day, compared to the other person. It wasn’t life-threatening. It wasn’t a betrayal. It was simply one person feeling agrieved over how much work she thought she was doing, compared to another. Jenny thought they had aired their grievances and the matter was done and dusted. She was surprised the next day, when she said “good morning” to Susie and Susie pretended she didn’t hear and ignored her.
Later that day, Susie lost her favourite pen and was searching high and low for it. When she couldn’t locate it, she enlisted the help of some of her other colleagues. She asked everyone in the office, bar Jenny because of course, she wasn’t talking to Jenny because of the incident the previous day.
Nobody had seen Susie’s precious pen apart from Jenny who could see that the pen had rolled under a desk in front of where she was sitting. Susie continued to search and was plainly distressed about her loss, but refused to ask Jenny if she had seen it. So Jenny kept quiet and didn’t tell her where the pen was.
I think this is really sad. Had Susie let yesterday’s altercation go, she would have lost her pen, but it wouldn’t have been lost for long. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you the moral of this story, but doesn’t it echo (quite loudly!) how we should put things into perspective?
Nothing is ever truly lost if you ask for help in the right places!
~ MEW
gpavants said:
That’s right. How often do we miss out because of a petty issue? I say, don’t give the Devil or our flesh the chance to get one over on us.
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mariewilliams53 said:
Thank you! This is so true. Personally I believe life could and should be so simple, but it seems we complicate matters far more than is necessary. It is as if we allow our egos to rule our lives. We are so full of our self-importance that in many cases, we stifle our higher-selves, which only wants to operate from a place of love.
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minimaggie said:
Lovely .. !!
You captured my heart at the very beginning — ‘we let trivial matters impact our lives, so we miss out on really good things’
we really do and only realize it on reading a masterpiece like this ! ^_^
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mariewilliams53 said:
Thank you so much for your complimentary comment! So glad I captured your heart and that this “masterpiece” resonates with you. :))
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mariewilliams53 said:
I tried to find your blog and WordPress says it doesn’t exist anymore. Is this true? Pity!
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Anna Waldherr said:
Sad that Jenny could not find it in her heart to overlook the slight.
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mariewilliams53 said:
Thank you! I liken this to a modern day parable!
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Lady G said:
Never mind me, I’m just catching up a bit…
Marie, I love the way you recounted this incident 🙂
I felt as if I was an omniscient coworker observing these two–I could just see that pen right there under that desk! LOL!!!
Anyway, imagine the amount of negativity that, no doubt, compounded between these ladies. That negative vortex probably seeped throughout the entire workplace—all due to a very trivial matter that could have easily been settled, forgiven and forgotten.
But, sadly, these incidences occur more than many of us would like to admit.
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mariewilliams53 said:
That’s ok Lady G. Thank you. As you rightly say these incidences are so common and there really is no need for people to make a mountain out of a molehill and make life difficult in the workplace for each other. Sometimes you just have to not strut the small stuff.
Thanks for commenting and take care M’lady. :)x
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Lady G said:
You take care too M’lady 🙂
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