A Fairy Tale With Love

Once upon a time there was a slightly gullible student who was seeking enlightenment. Touring facebook one day she came across a motherly white haired lady who claimed to be a fairy froggymother. The student liked what the fairy said and became her friend. It was not long before another friend of the fairy, a coyote whose only attire was a beige cowboy hat, asked to be the student’s friend too.

The slightly gullible student was a happy camper. Now she had two new friends. Life was good! A very positive relationship between the student and the coyote quickly grew. A relationship between the student and the fairy froggymother also grew, but the energy was not entirely positive. The fairy asked so many personal questions of the student that she became suspicious of her motives.

The student repeatedly asked her who she really was and could not obtain a plausible answer. The fairy finally got tired of the game and left in a huff. She was just in the way anyway, the student decided after contemplation.

Now this leaves the coyote, wearing the beige cowboy hat, and the student seeking enlightenment, to finish the story. The coyote was really very kind at heart and helped the student understand that she was in charge of her own life and whatever she saw was real. There was no need to defend her view to anyone. The student was so grateful that her heart filled with love. She felt it would explode it was so full. She could not help expressing her feelings to the coyote.

The coyote ran like a scared chicken and disappeared from the face of the earth. Of course, the student seeking enlightenment was crushed and accepted the blame for what happened. She tried everything to get the coyote to come back because she couldn’t get him out of her mind. He became the center of her life for several weeks. Then one day she woke up and realized that she was giving a coyote, wearing a beige cowboy hat, who ran like a chicken, control of her life. No more!!

The moral of this story is: When you allow anyone else to take over your life you will get exactly what you are asking for- a pile of chicken shit!

Although this allegory was written in jest it is absolutely true. It describes an experience I recently survived.