The World of Wisdom
The World of Wisdom is swirling and sparkling,
nothing stands still and it’s always growing.
Choosing
I don’t know about you but I sometimes have this impulse out of the blue, something I absolutely have to do on the spot.
For instance, when walking down a shopping street I may feel a sudden urge to enter a certain shop at that particular moment.
I don’t know about you but I sometimes have an impulse out of the blue, something I absolutely have to do on the spot.
For instance, when walking down a shopping street I may feel a sudden urge to enter a certain shop at that particular moment. Like that day I was walking in town and I felt I had to go into a department store.
At that particular moment I didn’t know why I was doing it. Walking round looking for what I needed to find I thought I might as well replenish my stock of Senseo cappuccino. A few minutes later I was waiting in the queue at the cash desk. It was quite busy then, but as I didn’t have anything urgent to do I didn’t mind at all. There I was with my shopping basket full of coffee, waiting for my turn. All the cash desks were open and I had taken out my cards ready to be scanned.
And then I felt someone pulling my coat. I looked down and saw a girl of about seven, a lovely little girl with fair hair and gorgeous blue eyes. She looked at me and asked if she could ask me a question.
I said: ‘Yes of course, you may ask me something. What can I do for you?’
She said she had a problem and could I please help her. I replied: ‘Sure sweetie, tell me how I can help.'
She showed me a cuddly toy she was carrying under her arm. She said she didn’t know which to choose.
I said: ‘You know what, I’ll try to help you. Who is the present for, a friend or someone else?’
Looking at me she replied: ‘It is for myself, madam!’
It goes without saying that I was surprised and asked: ‘But why cannot you choose then?’
With a dejected look on her face she said: ‘Madam, I am so scared of choosing.’
‘Scared of choosing … But why?’ I asked.
‘Because I always make the wrong choice’, she answered.
I knelt down and told in a way clear to her that life actually offers us this great opportunity to make choices. It is by choosing that you can learn something.
So she shouldn’t be afraid to choose and she would learn something from every choice.
She should be happy to be able to make choices in her life.
She looked at me and I told her to just go for it, to choose whatever she fancied. ‘You know what helps? Choose what makes you happy!’
She started to laugh and frolicked off to the cuddly toys.
When I stood up straight again I found that everybody was looking at me. Nobody did anything or moved, and I got the feeling that we were all together in one big bubble.
It was actually quite funny. They had all listened to our conversation.
The check-out girls did nothing, looked at me too, just like everybody in the queue. It was such a wonderful moment.
I enjoyed it vastly and I hope that that little girl will enjoy choosing so that she may offer herself the possibility to learn from the choices she makes.
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