Choices: I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.

Choices.

Good advice: When you are presented with just two choices, look for a third...

The words from the song "El Condor Pasa" by Simon & Garfunkel, "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail..." [Search at http://www.youtube.com for a video of the song.] In that song you are given the two choices of being a hammer or a nail. There is a third choice. Three things are required. The hammer. The nail. What the nail is being hammered into. So I say: "It is better to be a hammer than a nail, but if you have to be the nail then be grateful you are not what the nail is being hammered into!"

I've posted the following other example before at this blog, but since it is part of this subject, I'll include it in this posting too...

There is the old question: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" I say the question is very seriously flawed because it leaves out a third choice, which could be the correct answer to the question. If a question is flawed, then how can you get a correct answer? You are given two choices. The chicken. The egg. What very important and necessary item is missing, which should be the third option? The egg is the child. The chicken is female, as all of them are, and therefore is the mother. What about the father? What about the male? The rooster! Just maybe the rooster came first. But, of course, the Democrats and Republicans would not want you to know there is a third choice, which could be the correct choice and probably is.

Please copy this and share it with others. Thanks. Spread the word. There is a third choice!

James C. Harwood
Norman, Oklahoma
Saturday 28 February 2009