Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Ten Ways to Look at a Problem # 8


As a Trampoline


As Yukon Cornelius discovered, "Bumble's Bounce!" Problems are like that, too. The bigger the problem, the more likely it is to bounce.

Many a problem can be a springboard to something better. Anyone who has jumped on a trampoline long enough also understands that, when a problem is put on the tarp, sooner or later it's going to fly off the edge.

Perhaps that's what we mean we we say we have to "roll with the punches" or "go with it" or "just let it go." Not every problem in life demands our attention, or is an emergency of the highest priority. Some problems can, indeed, be ignored for a time, and many, through time, dissipate in oceans of larger problems or new insights. A problem that can be ignored probably wasn't much of a problem to begin with. Let it go.

And now that we've done this, we can bounce along to something else. There are better days around those edges.

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