I came upon this thought the other day as I was downing a tasty bag of salty pistachios.
These are the nuts in the hard shell that are slightly open where you have to finish cracking them in order to get your prize!
As I was mowing through the bag, I got to that one nut that was completely sealed. It didn’t have that slight crack in it so I couldn’t get it open.
I must have spent minutes trying to get that dang thing open!
I tried biting it, then I tried smashing it, and to no avail the thing just wouldn’t open!
I then finally looked down at the bag and thought why the heck am I spending so much time and energy on this one nut when there is still half a delicious bag to be enjoyed?
So, I tossed the bad nut away and enjoyed the rest of the bag!
This made me think in life why it is that we tend to spend or allow so much of our precious time and energy to be consumed by toxic people? (I know I have been guilty of this)
What we really need to do is toss away these toxic people like we would a bad nut and enjoy the rest of our lives like we would enjoy the rest of the bag.
After all, we only have so much time and energy to spend each day. Why not spend it ALL on the people we love and actually care for?
Life is short.
Enjoy it!