Not on a house, not with a mouse

Not with a mouse, not on a house...
Dr. Seuss got it right.
Sometimes you just have to say
"No" to people in a million
different creative ways for them
 to finally get it...
and then in the end, you find out
they were right all along and you
we're wrong...
Saving face may be no small task
for us, but for Dr. Seuss, he took
it all in stride not missing a step.
So his world expanded and he
was no worse for wear--Green
Eggs and Ham were on the menu
and it only took him a whole
children's picture book to say yes
to life, to retract his stubborn
unwillingness to try something new
and in the end he was rewarded--
but it took a while--a short while
compared to the way the machinery
of our world changes to new ideas
and potentially better ways of doing
things.  We all learn a little bit in the
living and making inevitable mistakes
along our journey to wisdom and
happiness, patiently waiting for us all
along.


Copyright © 2013 Gary Frates