In a man neighborhood two #44 bus lines are in service. One goes downtown, the other to the train station. One day he had to go to the train station, so he took a pleasant walk to the bus stop, where he needed to be by 10:43am. When he checked his watch, it was 10:40am. He hadn’t arrived yet but He saw the back of bus #44 that briefly stopped and then drove away. He thought: “How strange. It’s not 10:43 yet”. Then he couldn't help thinking: “It was early! It’s NOT FAIR! Now I have to wait half an hour for the next ride.” Meanwhile another #44 bus pulled in at exactly 10:43!!! It was the one going to the train station. In a flash he realized that the previous bus was the one going downtown. He knew that the bus to downtown passed three minutes before the one to the station, but he hadn’t been “aware and alert”! “A good lesson!” He told himself. Do you tend to make hurried judgments, to give up hope too easily? Do you believe that you’ve missed your chance and will never be given a second one? If you are not aware and alert, you make assumptions without giving yourself time to reflect, weigh the situation, look at it from different perspectives. If, on the other hand, you are, you’ll see that what is FAIR for you is right there, and ready to be picked.
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