by Paul Barry
There once was a man who moved into a lovely little house with his wife. The only problem was a small hole in the roof, which they concluded didn’t really matter, because the sun was usually shining. One day, a heavy storm started, widening the hole, and water began to pour through, saturating them, along with their furniture and rugs.
‘What can we possibly do?’, the man lamented to his wife one night, both of them huddled together under a table for shelter again. ‘There’s no way we can get up and fix the roof in this weather! It could be very dangerous. And besides, what does it matter now? We’re already soaked!’ His wife, cold, wet, and unschooled in roof repair, had to agree. The rain continued to pour, and they resigned themselves to becoming as comfortable as possible until the storm passed over….
Finally, a whole week later, the sun began to shine. Hanging the rugs out on the line to dry, his wife asked if they would fix the roof today, to which he replied, ‘Are you crazy? The sun is out! Why think of negatives on such a lovely day! Let’s go to the beach, we can always fix the roof tomorrow.’
There is never a ‘good time’ to deal with issues. There is only dealing with them or not dealing with them. As difficult as it is to face problems, I have begun to ask myself, ‘if not now, when?’ I’m trying my best to deal with problems when I *don’t* need to, because when it rains, I may not feel *able* to.
Feel free to join me.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
– John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
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