then to be understood.
This is one of Steven Covey's seven habits of highly effective people, and it randomly popped in my head this morning. Interesting how the mind works!
Though random, it is not a completely new phenomenon to me. I've heard it before. I've considered it before. But it wasn't until this morning that I thought about it in a whole new light.
What I realized about this habit today is the sheer magnitude of unselfishness that it requires in order to truly come to fruition. Furthermore, it has made me realize how truly selfish I have been - and continue to be - at this stage in my life.
Strike that. I know I am a selfish person and have become increasingly more selfish with such things as my time and energy in the past couple years. But each one of us in entitled to be just a little selfish now and again, right? My question, then, is at what point does selfishness cross the line between virtue and vice? How long do we hold out to reach understanding? What happens if it never comes?
While I do not expect any concrete answers to such questions, I am left with the following thought:
Good things come to those who wait.
If that saying does hold true, I better wind up a millionaire, living the happiest existence a person could imagine, with the person of my dreams! :P
Oh, it's fun to dream...
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