To eliminate fear

The following text is an excerpt taken from Robert Maurer’s One small step can change your life: The kaizen way.

A drunk is on his hands and knees looking for his keys under a streetlight. A policeman approaches him and asks, “What are you doing?”

The drunk replies in a slurred voice, “I’m looking for my keys.”

The policeman further inquires, “Where did you drop them?”

The drunk says, “Over there,” pointing to the end of the city block.

The policeman scratched his head and says, “If you dropped them over there, why are you looking for them over here?”

And the drunk replies, “Because the light is better over here.”

When life gets scary and difficult, we tend to look for solutions in places where it is easy or at least familiar to do so, and not in the dark, uncomfortable places where real solutions might lie.