Thought 22MAY2008

WISDOM
Three cowboys had been riding the range since early in the morning. One of them was a member of the Navajo Nation. Being busy with the herding stray cattle all day, there had been no time for the three of them to eat. Toward the end of the day, two of the cowboys started about how hungry they were and about the huge meals they were going to eat when they reached town. When one of the cowboys asked the Navajo if he was also hungry, he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "No."
Later that evening after they had arrived in town, all three ordered large steak dinners. As the Navajo proceeded to eat everything in sight with great gusto, one of his friends reminded him that less than an hour earlier he had told them that he was not hungry. "Not wise to be hungry then," he replied. "No food."
Author unknown - extracted from 'A 2nd helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul' Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, Health Communication, Inc., 1995
When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised - Ashanti of Ghana