The answer is, “Good Advice”. I heard that riddle many, many years ago and have often thought about it since and how true it is.
It seems that we are always willing to give great advice to others, but are often violently unwilling to take the advice of others ourselves. So how do we advise someone else when we really believe that we have good advised for them and that they really need to hear it? Well, you tell me and we will all be the wiser for it. Really there is no straightforward, easy-all way of doing this.
And sometimes, no matter how we try, we will not be able to get the message across. In cases like that, that is often all we can do. Try! If we have tried our best and failed than we have done enough and our consciences will be clear, because sometimes people just do not want our advice and won’t listen no matter what we try and say. With them again I say we can only try our best and withdraw. But is that a reason to with draw without trying at all?
If we care enough about people to notice their potential harm if this particular situation is not changed or challenged, then we will, if we can, find a way to give it to them the advise they need anyway but in a way that will not put them off side too much. In some cases we may have to bite the bullet and give the advice to them however we can, and leave the outcome to them. It is better to say something and loose a friend than not say something and cause a major mishap by your silence.
It may not always be palatable but I have found it best to do the right thing in the belief that it is better to be wrong for doing the right thing than to be wrong for doing nothing. Of course the necessary correction here is that we too need to make sure that our advice is 100% accurate, 100% helpful and 100% delivered in genuine love and concern.
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