Choosing cucumbers?

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
– William Glasser

Brett really likes this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8mynrRd7Ak

I choose cucumbers some times because I know I need to eat vegetables. Brett also finds it strange that cucumbers are the only food I put salt on. But I can easily down a pound of good grapes before I realize what I’ve done.

That monkey on the left can’t really make the choice for the graduate assistant to give her a grape, none of us can choose the actions of others. But she can definitely choose how she reacts to it. Sometimes it seems like we don’t have a choice at all, but we can always choose how to react.

What that monkey should do is choose to convince the other monkey that cucumbers are better and she should choose to hand over her grapes.

Of course it’s not really the protests from last year because that wasn’t unequal pay for equal work since those people weren’t exactly working.