There is a story of identical twins. One was a hope-filled
optimist. "Everything is coming up roses!" he would say. The other was a
sad and hopeless pessimist. He thought that Murphy, as in Murphy's Law, was
an optimist. The worried parents of the boys brought them to the local
psychologist.
He suggested to the parents a plan to balance the twins'
personalities. "On their next birthday, put them in separate rooms to open
their gifts. Give the pessimist the best toys you can afford, and give the
optimist a box of manure." The parents followed these instructions and
carefully observed the results.
When they peeked in on the pessimist, they heard him audibly
complaining, "I don't like the color of this computer.... I'll bet this
calculator will break.... I don't like this game.... I know someone who's
got a bigger toy car than this...."
Tiptoeing across the corridor, the parents peeked in and saw their
little optimist gleefully throwing the manure up in the air. He was
giggling. "You can't fool me! Where there's this much manure, there's gotta
be a pony!"
Author Unknown
From More Sower's Seeds by Brian Cavanaugh
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