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 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
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