The Problem of Other People's Problems
Oh how they entice us!
A spiderweb is a clever trap that simply waits for a meal to come along. All it has to do is touch it to become entangled and stuck.
Other people’s problems are like spiderwebs that entice well meaning onlookers to decide it makes perfect sense to become involved in attempting to extricate spiders from their own webs.
For some reason we believe others to be missing the point we alone so clearly see and must share.
Here’s an experiment for anyone tired of finding themselves the victim on another’s web.
Stop with giving advice.
Express support and concern and offer prayers, but avoid opinions. Permit others to not do things the way you would.
Check back a week or two later and see what has happened. Often you will discover that for some strange reason most problems solve themselves without our interference, and sometimes they turn out better than they often have in the past when we inserted ourselves into them.
And if you are the spider, find another hobby.
