Loading ...For me it’s always been the principle of the thing rather than just about making money. I’ve been “counseling” a friend I’ve never met who has PTSD and is having difficulty coping with what other people are doing or saying that is causing her much distress. What I am suggesting to her is that she cannot control what others are doing or saying. All she can do is control what SHE is doing or saying. Others have to take responsibility for what they do or say but it is not within our power to change what someone else is saying or doing.
So that is why I say be right and sit tight. Maybe it will give others a glimpse at themselves and they will see that what they are doing not only affects them but it also affects many others too.
I read a story once about a guy walking down the beach which was littered with living sand dollars from a recent storm. He was picking them up and throwing them back into the ocean. He came to another guy who asked what he was doing. He said “throwing them back into the ocean”. The guy said “there are millions of them, you can’t possibly make a difference”, to which he replied as he picked up the next sand dollar and threw it back in, “well it makes a difference to THIS one”.
That’s how I have always viewed life. I can’t control what others do but I can control what I do. And maybe in some small way I can influence others by making them see “it’s the principle of the thing” and we all do make a difference.
All The Best from Silverngold