PERSPECTIVE

When I was counseling in elementary school, one of my favorite stories, one which addressed the kindergarten developmental age, was a story about a boy with a little red wagon and a girl.

The boy was accustomed to pulling his little red wagon around. It was, after all a wagon.

In the course of making friends with the girl, he had to learn the hard lesson about others having minds and hearts of their own.

Once he got it that the girl was not a little red wagon, but a new kind of interactive experience, they were able to be friends.

In workiing with people from other cultures, sometimes I have to learn that lesson all over again.

New working relationships are like a flower growing. It'll just die off and miss it's bloom  if not nurtured according to what the flower needs.