“A man left home, jogged a little bit and turned left, jogged some more and turned left, continues jogging back towards home where two masked men were waiting for him. Who were the masked men?”
“Dunno… maybe robbers?” “I’ll try again. A man left home, jogged a little bit and turned left, jogged some more and turned left, continues jogging back towards home where two masked men were waiting for him. Who were the masked men?” “What do I know, maybe it was Halloween…?” “Here it is again and I’ll give you some help this time. A man left home, jogged a little bit and turned left, jogged some more and turned left, continues jogging back towards home where two masked men were waiting for him. Who were the masked men? This time think ‘baseball!” “Aaah, the batter and the umpire!” How many times do we misunderstand each other just because of differences in perspective? Here is another one that was told me by a marriage counsellor. Robert and Julia had not been married a year and things were already bleak. They could not start even a simple conversation without it turning sour. They went to see and counsellor who after five minutes told them, “Ah, I understand your problem; you just do not speak the same language!” “What?!” Said Robert, “We are from the same town, even went to high-school together and even our parents are best friends who have lived in that same town all their lives!” “Yes!”, said the counsellor, but if Julia comes to you one evening wearing a new beautiful dress , if you like it what will you say?” “I will say it is a nice dress you bought!” “What does ‘nice’ mean to you, Robert?” “Nice means ‘perfect, gorgeous, beautiful’…!” “No!” said Julia, “Nice means ‘ok, not bad,, mediocre’…!” “Now you see…”, said the counsellor, “you do not speak the same language!” I heard it said one time that the most important journey a man can travel is that of learning to see things from the other person’s point of view!
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