Monday, October 27, 2008

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.

"That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this?"

The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."

And so it is with life. What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

6 comments:

  1. I read this last night and was going to comment but somehow I got sidetracked or something...can't remember now what I did. (i think i clicked on one of your links before i hit the Post Comment tab)

    I've never seen this particular item before, but it's worth reading over and over.

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  2. Wonderful philosophy! So true so true!

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  3. i like this little story. It would have been better if he'd added "bitch" at the end.

    haha my Internet will NEVER be resolved because I'm technologically unfit. I called Time Warner three times pretending to be the asian woman I live with...

    - Mila

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  4. *Applauds* I hadn't seen this one before - very good.

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  5. *laffz* and the first thought that came to my mind when I read this?

    "Blonde much?"

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