This man is walking down the street and sees an old man and his dog sit down on the front porch of the old man's house. The dog lays down a few feet away and begins to wimper shortly after that. The man on the street thought "poor dog" but continued on his way. On his walk back, he was about two blocks away and heard the dog yelping in pain. He decided to take it upon himself to confront the old man when he got back to that street. Upon his approach, he starts yelling at the old man.

"Are you deaf? I can hear your dog two blocks away! Why don't you do something?"
The old man put his paper down and looked at the guy yelling at him.
"For the last ten years, I've come out here every afternoon and read my newspaper. The dog has come with me and lays down in the same exact spot. About a year and a half ago, the head of a nail holding one of the planks down came off. The exposed part of the nail goes right in to the dog's belly. He just doesn't move."
The man, now befuddled, asks the old man why.
"Because it doesn't hurt bad enough."

Think about any situation in your life that causes you some kind of pain. The only reason you're not doing anything about it is because it doesn't hurt bad enough. But why feel the pain? Why suffer? Don't wait until it hurts bad enough. Stop the pain and do something to improve your situation. Regardless of what it is. Because if you don't, you'll be just like the dog. So... does it hurt bad enough? Or are you going to keep sitting on that nail?

OG

thank you for that OG

i don't know any dog that sits on a nail and returns to do it again the next day, thats why invisible fences work, look into pavlov's experiments. i know its not the point. Possibly its a retarded dog.

No problem.



I know all about the Pavlovian Response. That's one of the first things I tried after I got in to hypnosis. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to get a human being conditioned to certain words, phrases, and/or commands. The point of this story is "Are you going to be stubborn like the dog, and continue to do something that is painful to you, or are you going to get off the nail and do something that doesn't hurt?"

OG

i think the issue here is that retarded dog.

It's a metaphor. Nothing more. Nothing less.

OG

ok then its a retarded metaphor

And I'm done wasting my time.

OG

But its my spot, its always been my spot and I want to sit there, and I am going to sit there, and I am going to whine about it too until someone comes to fix it for me.

we don't say "retarded" anymore. it's insulting.

say, "it's a developmentally disabled metaphor"

We prefer "challenged" as opposed to "disabled"