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The Optimist
~Unknown~
There is a story of identical twins. One was a
hope-filled optimist. "Everything is coming up
roses!" he would say. The other twin was a sad and
hopeless pessimist. He thought that Murphy, as in
Murphy's Law, was an optimist. The worried parents of
the boys brought them to the local psychologist.
He suggested to the parents a plan to balance the
twins" personalities. "On their next birthday,
put them in separate rooms to open their gifts. Give the
pessimist the best toys you can afford, and give the
optimist a box of manure." The parents followed
these instructions and carefully observed the results.
When they peeked in on the pessimist, they heard him
audibly complaining, "I don't like the color of
this computer . . I'll bet this calculator will break .
. . I don't like the game . . . I know someone who's got
a bigger toy car than this . . ."
Tiptoeing across the corridor, the parents peeked in
and saw their little optimist gleefully throwing the
manure up in the air. He was giggling. "You can't
fool me! Where there's this much manure, there's gotta
be a pony!"
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