Bread. Butter. Fables, and Put into it What You Want Out of It.
This is one of my favorite fables from when I was a kid. I’ve shared it speaking many times ….
Growing up, I lived next door to my grandma. I would go to her house every single day and read her books (she was an elementary school teacher for decades). This one book of fables was my favorite – from AESOP. Important life lessons always.
Once, there was a farmer who regularly sold butter to a baker. One day, the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting the exact amount that he asked for. He found out that he wasn’t, so he took the farmer to court.
The judge asked the farmer if he uses any measure to weigh the butter. The farmer replied, ‘Your Honor, I’m primitive. I don’t have a proper measure, but I do have a scale.’
The judge replied, “Then how do you weigh the butter?”
The farmer replied; “Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day, when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter.
You ULTIMATELY Get What You Give
Sometimes in life, it seems like that baker gets away with those short loaves of bread far too often. It can be frustrating to watch, but I’m finally getting old enough to see it: the universe really does balance itself out in the end.
Call it God, Karma, balance… whatever you like, but in the end we learn who’s good. Whom we can trust. Who the “real” people are in our lives, and when we lean on them they make our world better.
The baker? Well – he’s just going to runaround worried about when the universe catches him, isn’t he?