Are you a Cookie Thief?
Over the last few weeks I’ve been enjoying listening to some of my old audiobooks again. I especially enjoy listening to Wayne Dyer, rest his soul.
How often are you a cookie thief? By that I mean, how often do you point the finger? I can’t remember who shared the quote with me, nor can I find the source, however it goes; “Whenever you point a finger at someone, there’s three fingers pointing back at you.” I’ve talked about easy being hard and hard being easy in a previous blog and I know it’s easy to blame and make our own shortcomings everyone else’s fault or problem. It’s not so easy to sit in contemplation and consider our contribution to a situation and how we might alter our behaviour to generate a different result.
The poem below is called ‘The Cookie Thief’ by Valerie Cox, I hope you enjoy it and find some wisdom within …
A woman was waiting at an airport one night,
with several long hours before her flight.
She hunted for a book in the airport shops,
bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop.
She was engrossed in her book but happened to see,
that the man sitting beside her, as bold as could be. . .
grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between,
which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene.
So she munched the cookies and watched the clock,
as the gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock.
She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by,
thinking, “If I wasn’t so nice, I would blacken his eye.”
With each cookie she took, he took one too,
when only one was left, she wondered what he would do.
With a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh,
he took the last cookie and broke it in half.
He offered her half, as he ate the other,
she snatched it from him and thought… oooh, brother.
This guy has some nerve and he’s also rude,
why he didn’t even show any gratitude!
She had never known when she had been so galled,
and sighed with relief when her flight was called.
She gathered her belongings and headed to the gate,
refusing to look back at the thieving ingrate.
She boarded the plane, and sank in her seat,
then she sought her book, which was almost complete.
As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise,
there was her bag of cookies, in front of her eyes.
If mine are here, she moaned in despair,
the others were his, and he tried to share.
Too late to apologize, she realized with grief,
that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.
Are you a cookie thief?