Cut A Thread
One of the best things I ever learned from someone was the technique of cutting a thread rather than pulling it. Rather elementary advice of course, something that I should have been able to find out on my own. Don't live in a town where scholars rule... Cutting a thread has a much wider and wiser application to life in general. The general set-up for the application of this principle goes like this: Is there something you can't change? An issue that is dangling and if you pull it, all that is going to happen is further problems, a constriction of the problem and an unraveling of the fabric? Well, time to pull out the scissors and cut the thread. That can be a toxic relationship that shows zero promise of improvement, a church where chronic problems are not dealt with, a dead-end job that de-animates the soul, a car that is hemorrhaging cash due to its poor quality and or age, etc. Cut the thread and move on. I know that in a consumer society it is often too easy to