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What Wasps Taught Me About The Mind
© Matt Wright
One sunny summer’s day, my whole family gathered for the usual meet up.
My job? Cooking on the barbecue.
Now I’m quite typical when it comes to wasps. One gets near me and I start flapping my arms about like a crazy man and running around in circles doing what looks like some kind of strange tribal war dance.
Not this day…
The barbecue got out of hand — like they do. All the stuff was burning and I was working like a demon trying to keep it under control…
It kept catching fire too and I was struggling to put the flames out. The fat was spitting, my arms were burning — in a word, chaos.
Enter an army of wasps…
Normally it only takes the one wasp to start off my tribal dance, but now I was surrounded by what seemed like hundreds. All coming to see what I was cooking for lunch. I seemed to be in a fog of wasps, working like crazy to stop everyone’s lunch going in the bin.
Then a strange thing happened.
No dance, no flapping of the arms, no running in circles.
I was SO occupied with controlling the cooking chaos that the wasps had to wait-in-line.
And you know what? No stings, no hassle, nothing bad happened.
Later it hit me like a ton of bricks — it’s all about attention. Without attention, the wasps just were not a problem. And a lot of stuff in life is just like that.
Now I admit, I’m kinda back to the tribal dance thing when a wasp comes to say hello. But still, lesson learned :-)
All the best,
Mike Kinnaird
Habit Guide: How to be Happy & Healthy
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hi mike. your lesson by wasps works!