You gotta sit…

Before I begin to share, I’d like to apologise in advance to anyone who considers this a little crude or lavatorial.  Reader discretion is advised!

My wife was a wise lady.  I remember her once saying to me that the best piece of advice a friend and therapist had given her was (spoken in a Brooklyn accent) “If wanna shit, ….. you gotta sit..”  Having a somewhat childish sense of humour, I never forgot this little pearl of wisdom.  However, whilst it has come to mind from time-to-time, I never really explored it beyond the obvious connotations. It appears that today was the day that its full richness came to me.

Beyond the superficial meaning, that if you want to do something you have to prepare and be in the right place I think there is something deeper.  It is oh-so-easy to apparently comply with both elements of this couplet and think you are done and go about your day.  However, if you give yourself a little more time and commit to the process you often find you have so much more to give.  This is real meaning of this metaphor.  How often have you heard someone say on receiving a bit of good advice “Oh, I tried that already..”  and you know they haven’t really.  They may think they did but they never committed to it.  The thing is as often as we have observed this in others, we have done it ourselves!  We want a change, we need a different result but but we aren’t willing to stop doing the same old thing. 

If you want something to work properly, you have to commit to it and make the time for it to happen.  Anything else, and whilst iy may, perhaps, gain some superficial success, will never really work.

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