Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Parable of the Ripped Jeans

Once there was a young girl in a little home in a little town. She loved many things, playing with friends, doing her schoolwork, all things that little girls love to do. She was a careful child though, and never did anything too reckless or too rough. 

Despite her caution, she always managed to get a rip in the left pant leg of her jeans. Pair after pair would go rip! rip! and her once beautifully whole pants would be shabby, old clothes.

She grew frustrated of this, but she still needed to wear those ripped jeans anyway, even though they looked worn-down and uncared for.

After many years, this little girl discovered something truly miraculous: stores sold jeans with rips in them!

So, this little girl began buying jeans that already had little knee holes for her little legs, and felt much more confident in return.

For you see, the reason she had felt oh so uncomfortable with her old jeans is that she dreaded that rip! rip! and how what she thought were some plain pants, soon turned into something much different. 

Now, her new ripped jeans remained ripped, just as they should.


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The moral of the story? It is all about making choices before they are made for you.

No matter how hard you wish, you are going to get a little rip in your jeans. Yet if you embrace it, buy the jeans with the little holes pre-made, you will be much happier.


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