Solving Problem

Let me tell you a story. Well thats what I do. Tell stories. Stories, probably you have heard before. Stories maybe new. However, with the story I tell, there is a lesson, a message, not the obvious one, but something specific for you, is attached. Read it carefully and see how you feel.

So the story goes …

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Lu Ting, drove half the town across to eat at a greek restaurant of Papadopoulus, for simple reason, the owner Papadopoulus made the best tasting fried rice in town. Every time Lu Ting came to the restaurant, Papadopoulus would call his friends to watch something what he found extremely funny. Lu Ting would order, “Flied Lice” please and this made Papadopoulus and his friends fall off laughing.

The Chinese pride could not take this insult anymore. Lu Ting took special diction lessons just to be able to say ‘Fried Rice’ properly.

Comes the day when he proudly walks in to Papadopoulus’s restaurant. Orders ‘Fried Rice please’.

Papadopoulus couldn’t believe this. He asked again, ‘What did you say?’

Lu Ting shouted, ‘You heard what I said, you Gleek Plick’

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Now a few of you would wonder what this story has to do with the title of the post. Look carefully and you will find.

In our lives we tend to do a quick patch, quick fix to issues that would usually need some long term permanent solution. We may learn to say ‘Fried Rice’ but ignoring the fact that dictions for all other words also need to be changed. There is no point fixing the symptom when the cause remains.

Before it is too late, find the cause, get rid of it and be free. Don’t do a Lu Ting style fix the symptom solution. Fix the problem, remove the cause.