If a person decides to buy a house that is perfect, except for a steep driveway, it makes no sense for them to be upset every time they come up the driveway.
Celebrate your choices, or make different ones, rather than make choices and constantly be unhappy about them or blame someone else (damn, the real estate should have warned me how much I’d hate this driveway). Wise lessons can come from many sources, including popular music. These are lyrics from a 1969 song that are really helpful in reminding me that I am responsible for my choices.
THE SNAKE (Al Wilson)
On her way to work one morning
Down the path alongside the lake
A tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake
His pretty coloured skin had been all frosted with the dew
“Oh well,“ she cried, “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you”
“Take me in, oh, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,“ sighed the snake
Now she wrapped him up all cozy in a coverture of silk
And laid him by the fireside with some honey and some milk
She hurried home from work that night, as soon she arrived
She found that pretty snake she’d taken in had been revived
“Take me in, oh, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried
“But if I hadn’t brought you in by now you might have died”
She stroked his pretty skin again and then kissed and held him tight
But instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite
“Take me in, oh, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
“I saved you,” cried that woman
“And you’ve bit me, even why?
And you know your bite is poisonous and now I’m gonna die”
“Oh, shut up, silly woman,” said that reptile with a grin
“You knew darn well I was a snake before you brought me in”
“Please take me in, oh, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,“ sighed the snake
Sighed the snake
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