A lady on a plane sitting in the wrong seat explaining herself….
An aged pastry chef over decorating a plate….
A man with hair that is prematurely greying…..
A passenger entering Korea with the incorrect paperwork….
What do all of these situations have in common…?????
Well………..LESS IS MORE !!!!!!!!!!!
The lady trying to explain her way out of being in the wrong seat should have spoken less, for the more she talked, the bigger hole of lies she dug for herself…
The pastry chef, had a basic and pleasant dessert, yet in over garnishing of the plate, made minutia of the basic dish and it was lost among the periphery of decoration….
The man with greying hair….was better off bald…less hair made him look modern and cutting edge and not old at all…
And the passenger entering Korea with the incorrect paperwork, realized that claiming ignorance and staying silent was a better way of getting through the situation than fighting a paper trail he did not possess…..
As humans we tend to overdo things, overwork, over eat, over achieve, over act, over react, over think and over talk.
Sometimes we need to make others and even our children for their betterment in the future, that LESS IS INDEED MORE…
Sometimes if we do less….we achieve more!
If we speak less – we have less problems!
If we thought less – we’d have less stress and less paranoia !
If we decorated a plate less – we’d have food that was far more attractive !
In no way am I purporting to laziness, or not doing a job at all, merely considering the consequences of our actions and realizing that the more one does in certain situations does not mean better things will come of it.
Consideration of ones actions before talking, acting, speaking rather than acting first and thinking later.
And as far as LESS-ons go….that’s all I’m going to say….
LESS IS MORE….think about it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Street cooking,.....delicious |
The amazing people of Vietnam with whom I spent some time this week....Less they have....happiness many of them had far more than my friends in more developed lands...proof yet again that Less CAN LEAD TO MORE....
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| Fishermen on a jetty north of the city of Phu My |
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| A family make their income...cooking crispy pancakes |
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| Young but entreprenerial and friendly to a bothersome western journalist |
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| Break time ....and a coffee for us all |
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