People You Notice #2
Unseasonably warm, my wife and I slipped over to a new restaurant to sit on the patio during Covid season for an early Friday night date. Situated by the water with the sun directly in my face, I wore my aviators as we dined on calamari and pizza.
As we soaked in the conversation and pleasant evening, my wife prompted me to check out the drama unfolding behind me. A scrawny, but tenacious seven-year old boy was attempted to move a landscaping boulder. The boulder was easily five or six feet long and three or four feet high and wide. Easily, it weighed over a thousand pounds…maybe several thousand.
He attempted to push it. After glancing around, he leaned his back against it and pushed with his legs. More nervous glances at the patio diners and he began to lift from the bottom.
The boulder did not budge. For this kid under his own strength, it would never budge. Neither you nor I could move it either.
However, it is possible for the boulder to move. With the aid of the right machinery or possibly with clever leverage, it could move. It was strategically placed there with similar landscaping rocks after all. It just takes the right strategy and the right help.
Have you been trying to move any boulders? If so, ask for help from someone who knows how to move it.
Worth Repeating
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
-Alfred North Whitehead
