I read a great little story today that I thought I'd share here... It's something for all of us to think about in a world that tells us that we should only look out for number one...
Two children are in the kitchen; each wants an Oreo cookie, but there is only one left. A parent is near the kitchen and hears the discussion regarding the cookie and decides to let her children solve the problem. The discussion becomes very heated and fearing one child might injure the other, the parent rushes in and solves the problem by cutting the cookie in half. The first child takes one half, scrapes the creamy filling from the cookie, eats the filling and throws the outside of the cookie away. The second child takes the other half, scrapes the creamy filling from the cookie, throws away the filling and eats the outside of the cookie.
Of course, you can guess the moral of this story - if both parties had listened to what the other party was saying, they both could have had twice as much of what they wanted. I know this little vignette probably grossly oversimplifies more complex disagreements.
But does it really, though?
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