A snake entered a Carpentry Shop, and as it crawled to the corner, it went through a saw and hurt itself a little bit. At that time he turned and bit the saw, and biting the saw, he hurt himself badly in the mouth. Then, not understanding what was happening to him and thinking that saw was attacking him, he decided to roll around the saw as if wanting to suffocate him with his whole body, and shaking with all his strength. It was so, unfortunately, the snake ended up being killed by the saw. Sometimes we react in anger, thinking about hurting those who hurt us, but we are hurting ourselves. In life, sometimes it is better to ignore situations, people and offenses. Because the consequences can be irreversible and catastrophic.
The Snake and the Saw. What are your thoughts on this analogy?
unique, never heard of or thought of it. I didn't get it til you explained.
I don't like snakes, so my initial reaction not good. I don't like because I used to catch them as a kid and one time it didn't work out so well:) nothing wrong with snakes per-se.
I'm not sure I agree with the analogy and that it is healthy. That tells me you are an introvert and may not like conflict... that would be me. But we internalize this crap and it just erodes us further. Or we ignore it and it comes out on someone else x10 severity (e. g. women who don't report an abusive man vs the one that does and it saves other women.) It is ok to walk away and accept, but also ok to acknolwedge how it made you feel, evaluate what going on inside you, and course correct that. Ideally, you want to respond with love and compassion... not so easy to do even when you are consiously aware.
I may have overstayed my view... I'll stop there...
Would make a great parable- cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. There are numerous situations in life where we do this to ourselves- ever get so angry that your body felt it minutes or even hours later due to the stress? Also, of course, wanting revenge on people. There is always something better we can do with our time and energy and makes us feel better.
I think this could be true. My cousin tried to protect herself from negative influence by me in her life cause she thought I hated her and wanted bad things to happen to her - I didn't hate her until she started slandering me to others to protect herself from being destroyed by me - she told them to lie and say she wasn't having a wedding cause she was worried I would say bad things about her to her wedding guests and I hated her for slandering me to everybody in my family and getting the whole family to lie to me about attending her wedding - after that I hated the fact she was married - not only for this - but she lies about everything - and she tries to make me look bad cause she doesn't want me to expose her for the fraud that she is.
A man found a frozen snake outside in his yard. The man decided to try and save the snake. The man took the snake inside and laid him by the fire he built to warm the snake up. After that the man bought the snake some food and water. Later the man tried to pet the snake and the snake bit him. The man said " snake why would you bite me I took you inside my home, I warmed you up, I even brought you food and water snake, why would you bite me? The snake looked at him and said " you knew I was a snake when you brought me inside...
People think that men with Asperger's or autism are purposely offending them when we are not, and then shun us or act nasty to us for no reason like the ignorant snake. Since society is a bunch of ignorant snakes, I live like a hermit and spend 95% of my life in just one room.
I’d never heard that one before but I absolutely love it, so many times I’ve reacted in the heat of the moment without thinking and said something I regret whereas if I’d left it and thought about it I’d have done something completely different. Will use again/10
Ignoring pain is a bad solution. The thing to do here is to pay attention to your surroundings so you avoid unnecessary injury. Ignoring bad shit just because it's not intended to be malicious towards you isn't a viable option because passive wounds still bleed. If the snake gets cut and doesn't fight back he'll still bleed to death. Make sure you don't get cut at all, and if you do get cut then the worst thing you can do is pretend everything is fine.
It is too deep to express how this analogy can apply in various aspects of life that each one of us live..
However the essence is to understand the situation and act after you have measured and calculated every variable factor!.. On your and your Rival's side..
This is a great analogy. Sometimes we think others are hurting us. We think that if we react we’ll hurt them, but in reality it won’t even bruise them and we only end up kicking ourselves. So it’s better to move on.
Realistically, the snake would have backed off after receiving an injury that grievous. I think self destructive people might do that, but the average person would know better.
Ohhhhhh finally!! Finally something non sexual and not related to what guys think on GaG I learnt something new It's a good analogy Thanks dude! I appreciate that
That is a good analogy. Anger does make animals do some stupid things at times that only hurts themselves more. I don't get angry anymore. I am like the opposite.
Anger is GOOD for survival. That's why it's evolved. The only problem is that it evolved in more primitive societies than we live in today (tribal). Sociobiology studies things like this.
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