from Verse One Hundred ElevenThings that are intended to be of benefit may in fact be harmful, while those things intended to cause harm may in fact be beneficial.~ Wen-tzu: Understanding the Mysteries ~
In the movie, We Are Marshall -- based on the true events of 1970 -- Assistant Football Coach Red Dawson gives up his seat on the team's chartered flight back home to one of his colleagues. The colleague is supposed to visit a recruit, but Dawson volunteers to make the trip by car and to allow his tired cohort to head for home and family.
About an hour or two later, Dawson stops to gas up the vehicle. While munching on some peanuts, he overhears on a radio playing at the gas station a news bulletin which reports that the school's chartered flight has crashed and everyone on the plane is presumed dead. His act of kindness saved his own neck, but cost his colleague his life. Dawson struggles to live with this circumstance.
This, of course, is a rather dramatic example of how a good deed can have disastrous results. In our everyday lives, less dramatic things of this nature happen all the time. A person gets fired from their job (ostensibly a bad event) only to have the opportunity to land in a much better one or a friend bakes you a cake for your birthday, but you wind up in the emergency room with food poisoning!
The point here is that we can never know how things will work themselves out. This is one reason why it's best not to get too high when things look like a glowing success or to get too low when things look like a dismal failure. Before you know it, they may switch seats!!
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About an hour or two later, Dawson stops to gas up the vehicle. While munching on some peanuts, he overhears on a radio playing at the gas station a news bulletin which reports that the school's chartered flight has crashed and everyone on the plane is presumed dead. His act of kindness saved his own neck, but cost his colleague his life. Dawson struggles to live with this circumstance.
This, of course, is a rather dramatic example of how a good deed can have disastrous results. In our everyday lives, less dramatic things of this nature happen all the time. A person gets fired from their job (ostensibly a bad event) only to have the opportunity to land in a much better one or a friend bakes you a cake for your birthday, but you wind up in the emergency room with food poisoning!
The point here is that we can never know how things will work themselves out. This is one reason why it's best not to get too high when things look like a glowing success or to get too low when things look like a dismal failure. Before you know it, they may switch seats!!
This post is part of a series. For an introduction, go here.
HI R T
ReplyDeleteExcellent. I SO agree. And I think that the more we understand about balance, and probability the easier this ebb and flow of life becomes.
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Gail
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