I ran across a little ditty on social
media today.
“You can skydive without a parachute…
but only one time.
Speaking of skydiving, I
once heard about a video cameraman who accompanied a couple of skydivers as
they jumped out of a small plane. He begins to do his thing and gets a lot of
good shots, but suddenly realizes... he has forgotten to strap on his parachute.
He was one of those fellows who never
did that deed, (nor any other deed for that matter) again.
As a counselor, I tell my clients
about the gal who walks down the sidewalk and falls into a manhole. Well, that
was an accident. But, if that same young lady walks down that same sidewalk
thirty more times and falls into that manhole thirty times in a row, we can no
longer properly refer to that particular tragedy as an ‘accident.’
As a counselor, I meet all kinds of
people with all kinds of issues with all kinds of motivations and all kinds of
attributes and deficits. There are some whom I refer to as “People of
Excellence,” and others I refer to as “People of Mediocrity.”
Too many of these people remind me of
the cameraman who jumped out of the plane without his parachute, and the lady
who insisted on falling into the same manhole far too many times; though she
had long since determined where it was located.
These folks are either unequipped due
to the lack of purposeful preparation, (like the skydiver), or they are oblivious
of the dangers to which they have succumbed in the past, (like the lady who
couldn’t avoid manholes).
Alcoholics Anonymous has a definition for
insanity.
“Doing the same thing, again and
again, and expecting a different result.”
As scripture admonishes us,
“These things out not to be.”
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