Tiffin Tease

I got sent this by a very dear friend and I thought I would post it because it's rather nice and I am proud to be a flawed crackpot!!

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. 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.

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. 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." 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."

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.

So, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

sinope

Thanks for that - cheered me up on a miserable Monday morning.

Ruthie

Thank you, what joy to hear. We musn't take ourselves so seriously either must we Ruthie

IceMaiden

Ki
That was lovely.

So from one crackpot to another................. Have a lovely day.

Ice xx

Tiffin Tease

Awww, ty hun - you too xx

flipflop

ah thats lovely ki, well i sure am a crackpot

Elli and Paul

Hi Ki

That's a lovely story, Karma sent for making me smile through the rain.

I know I'm a cracked pot

Elli

Don't forget to keep posting from Canada.

Bleech

I don't get it

windward

DOWN WITH THE NORMALS!

THE FREAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH! Bwahahahaa etc.

Tiffin Tease

How can you not??? You're one of the biggest crackpots out there

Tiffin Tease

and a good club to belong to it is too

Tiffin Tease

And so say all of us!!

Now, where'd I put my second head........??