Sam or Mary Yancy on thu 11 jan 07
>Crackpot
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>This makes you think. Hope you all have a Happy 2007!!! Sam in daly City
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>An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a
>pole, which she carried across her neck.
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>One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and
>always delivered a full portion of water, at the end of the long walk from
>the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
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>For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only
>one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its
>accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own
>imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been
>made to do.
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>After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the
>woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in
>my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
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>The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side
>of the path, but not on the other pot's side?" "That's because I have
>always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the
>path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I
>have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.
>Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to
>grace the house."
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>Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each
>have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.
>You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good
>in them.
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>SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell
>the flowers on your side of the path! >
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