I am sure you’ve heard the saying: less is more. People use it to focus, bosses use it to keep their teams concentrated on the target, etc.
But I experience very often something that I’d like to describe as LESS WITH MORE. Just a few minutes before, I had this experience.
It was Saturday. We were walking through our neighborhood trying to find a place to have a coffee while reading books. All tables in our favorite Italian café were taken. So we have decided to go to a corner café that is rather fancy and more expensive. But also there all tables on the terrasse were occupied. However, we have spotted two benches at the side wall of the café.
Perfect to sit down, relax and read. Cars passing by, kids and adults with dogs or shopping bags walking around. A wonderful moment to be in. The guys inside said that they will come out and serve us. We were waiting and waiting and waiting.
Nobody came out. So we have decided to go back to the Italian café, get coffee to go and then sit down on the bench that we liked so much. Said, done. When we came back, one of the waiters was taking a break on bench and smoking. He didn’t bother about us.
Then an older guy came, with an ice cream cone, happily enjoying the ice cream. He was just about to sit down on the bench beside the waiter. And then the waiter said: This bench is only for customers! So the Grandpa was a bit said and about to leave when I said laud so the waiter could hear it: Dear Grandpa, I think it’s ok for you to sit here as we are leaving and wait for your Granddaughter till she is done with buying the cakes inside, no? The Grandpa smiled and said: Thank you. It’s a great idea but I prefer to leave with you. So we left. He also needed to walk in the same direction so we keep chatting.
While crossing the cycling lane, we have heard somebody ringing the bike bell vigorously. There was a guy cycling super-fast towards us. He looked stressed. Still he was quite far away from us. So I jumped on the cycling lane, made a funny posture like one when you want to scare somebody, and then I jumped back to the pedestrian part. The cyclist passed and he was swearing and showing us the stinky finger. We all laughed and kept walking. The grandpa noticed: Man, they are all so stressed on Saturdays! But, why? It is such a wonderful day!
I said that I think I know why so many people are stressed on Saturdays. BTW, Just two hours before I drew this picture with the hammer, and I wrote down a few thoughts for this blog. I said: you know, on Friday evening people make all kind of plans for the weekend. They look forward to it and to all the things they want to do. But around Saturday noon, they start realizing that they cannot do all the things they’ve planned. That about half of them they will need to skip because the weather is not good, because the lane was too long, because the traffic was too heavy, because their friends cancelled the BBQ, because the tickets are not available, and so on…
We all agreed that it might be indeed the reason why some of us are so stressed on Saturdays. We were prepared for more, we wished for more, we wanted more but we’ve got less. And so it goes…
We sometimes are planning too much for so little weekend. It makes us honking.
We often expect too much from one life. It makes us disappointed.
We are asking too much from others. That distracts us from giving.
We are having too much for one person. That makes us even more greedy.
We consume too much for one hunger. That generates physical but also mental obesity.
We want too much for what one person needs. That makes us egoistic.
My key takeaways:
1. BE HUMBLE.
2. HAVE FUN.
3. BEHAVE.
How to lead now…
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