Fawlty Showers
The Gentle Slope of the Wrong Path
The next day I started working on my workbook. I needed a
little information on brain chemistry. I started to type hippocampus, but
stopped at hippo, just out of curiosity.
I wasted more than an hour reading about hippos, crocodiles,
and African rivers.
“Down the wrong path
again,” I said to my laptop. “People talk about a slippery slope. I don’t think
it’s all that slippery. You’d notice yourself slipping. I think the wrong path is more of a gentle
downhill grade. You hardly notice you’re going down.”
My laptop didn’t say anything.
“A glass of wine with dinner, a harmless flirtation, a
single scratch-off ticket – whatever your weakness is, the wrong path often
starts on nearly level ground but leads you lower.
“Being easily distracted is my ‘wrong path’,” I said. “But
this is partially your fault.”
Today I’ll beware of the gentle downhill slope of the wrong
path.
Fawlty Showers is
a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might
know is purely coincidental.
Other works by Ken Montrose are available at:
www.greenbriartraining.com
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S
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