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<blockquote data-quote="Nomad" data-source="post: 546521"><p><em>I needed to type this out anyway, so here is the Tractor story I posted a long time ago.I think the story was written by Susanna McMahon, Ph.D. and is slightly paraphrased and shortened here due to space limitations:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em>In a dense forest lives a depressed and unhappy swamp. One day a new, happy Tractor comes by. The swamp complains to him and says "It is a horrible day, I am stuck in this shady part of the forest where the sun never shines through the trees and I'm tired of being an old gloopey swamp."</p><p>The tractor then says, "I wish I could help," and the swamp says "If you really want to help, you could shovel some dirt into me and then I would dry up and stop being a swamp." So, the tractor does this for many hours, but it doesn't help. The swamp complains, is even a little rude, and begs the tractor to shovel faster. Days pass, and the little tractor is getting very very tired. The swamp looks eactly as it looked before. "If you really cared about me, says the swamp, I would see results." So, the tractor speeds up his efforts even fastor, even though he is feeling weak and exhausted. He shovels dirt while the swamp sleeps throughout the night and he continues to work the next day whle listening to the swamp complain how he isn't trying hard enough and doesn't really care. The tractor literally works himself to death and slowly sinks in the wet, muddy swamp and there is no evidence at all that the tractor was ever there in the first place. The swamp remains a swamp and waits for the next tractor to come along and save him from himself. </p><p></p><p></p><p><em>(Slightly different theme, since I guess a swamp can't really help itself...but tragic and revealing nontheless).</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nomad, post: 546521"] [I]I needed to type this out anyway, so here is the Tractor story I posted a long time ago.I think the story was written by Susanna McMahon, Ph.D. and is slightly paraphrased and shortened here due to space limitations: [/I]In a dense forest lives a depressed and unhappy swamp. One day a new, happy Tractor comes by. The swamp complains to him and says "It is a horrible day, I am stuck in this shady part of the forest where the sun never shines through the trees and I'm tired of being an old gloopey swamp." The tractor then says, "I wish I could help," and the swamp says "If you really want to help, you could shovel some dirt into me and then I would dry up and stop being a swamp." So, the tractor does this for many hours, but it doesn't help. The swamp complains, is even a little rude, and begs the tractor to shovel faster. Days pass, and the little tractor is getting very very tired. The swamp looks eactly as it looked before. "If you really cared about me, says the swamp, I would see results." So, the tractor speeds up his efforts even fastor, even though he is feeling weak and exhausted. He shovels dirt while the swamp sleeps throughout the night and he continues to work the next day whle listening to the swamp complain how he isn't trying hard enough and doesn't really care. The tractor literally works himself to death and slowly sinks in the wet, muddy swamp and there is no evidence at all that the tractor was ever there in the first place. The swamp remains a swamp and waits for the next tractor to come along and save him from himself. [I](Slightly different theme, since I guess a swamp can't really help itself...but tragic and revealing nontheless).[/I] [/QUOTE]
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