What do I mean by that? It’s really very simple. For us to get the most accurate and best
effective solution to our problem we must be able to see the entire “picture”
of what is truly going on.
We might relate it to some type of
physical ailment and having to make a trip to the doctor’s office. When we finally get in to see the doctor (I
know that almost seems like it takes forever) what is usually the FIRST thing
that we are asked? “How are you
doing?” Or maybe “What is the problem
today?” You would think that after making
an appointment, showing up at the office, and then waiting until our scheduled
appointment time has come and gone, the doctor would know that we must have a
medical problems or why else would we be there spending all our precious time
just to see them!
Then when we have started to explain our
concern for making this visit the doctor starts throwing all those other
questions at us: When did this start
happening? How long have you had this
pain? What have you taken for it, if
anything? Has this happened before? And many other questions that may make us
wonder why he or she needs to know all this information?
The reason? The doctor wants to get a complete picture of
what our current medical condition is and perhaps what has changed and hopefully
why it has changed.
We should attempt to do the same when we
need to analyze a specific situation or circumstance. Often however if we were completely honest,
we don’t know all the things that might be involved in or what may be
surrounding the circumstances that we are having to face. If may be that we will never know all that is
involved with certain events. This is
especially true when WE are trying to make deductions or summations about the
circumstances of other people.
WHY are they acting that way? THAT was a very foolish decision to
make? We do not know exactly what
another person is dealing with. We might
have had similar circumstances but the situation will not be exactly like the
one we went through. Our decision may
have been made on the “pieces of the puzzle” that we had available. There available knowledge or information may
have been different.
Some situations may have us so confused
that we are like the dilemma facing the former crew of the USS Enterprise in
the 1986 movie “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.”
After stealing a starship, they ventured back to earth in the attempts
to learn what alien force was disabling global power on the planet and
evaporating the oceans.
When confronted with the situation Spock’s
father made this simple but very powerful statement concerning the “message”
from the space probe: “It is difficult to respond with an answer when one does
not understand the question.”
As this may be so true about many
situations it still doesn’t prevent us as humans from wanting to play “armchair
quarterbacks” during football games or trying to provide OUR solutions to
others problems. But then again, we’re
only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"At times the problem is not solving the puzzle.
It's deciding which pieces to use first."
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