PEOPLE have some unique ways of trying to overcome their depression. There was a lady whose husband died. She found herself, of course, extremely lonely. She told herself that she needed to do something to overcome her depression. She took a trip to the pet store to look for something to comfort her in her loneliness.<\/p>\n
The proprietor introduced her to a parakeet that talked. The widow thought the idea of a talking parakeet was wonderful, so she took the parakeet home. She started talking to the bird, but the parakeet wouldn\u2019t talk back. The woman talked and talked. This went on for a week and, naturally, she was a little confused as to what was going on.<\/p>\n
The widow made her way back to the pet store. \u201cThe parakeet is not talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
The proprietor said, \u201cOh, you forgot to get the mirror. The parakeet needs to see itself in the mirror, then it will be encouraged to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
So she bought a mirror, took it back, and placed it in the cage. She made sure that the parakeet could see itself. For another week, she talked to the parakeet. The parakeet still would not talk.<\/p>\n
The lady went back, yet again, to the pet store. \u201cThat parakeet is still not talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh,\u201d he said, \u201cyou didn\u2019t get the swing. The parakeet\u2019s got to be on the swing and swinging and looking at itself in order for it to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
So she bought the swing, put the parakeet on the swing, and started talking to the parakeet.<\/p>\n
Another week went by and she made her way back to the pet store.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis dumb parakeet is not working. It\u2019s not doing what I hoped it would do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, I am sorry. There\u2019s one more thing you forgot to get\u2014the ladder. The parakeet has got to have the ladder to walk up and down on. That movement will allow it to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Begrudgingly, she bought the ladder. Another week went by. That parakeet didn\u2019t say a word. However, at the end of the week, it fell over dead.<\/p>\n
The widow was really mad now. She marched back to the store and sought out the store owner. She said, \u201cThat parakeet you sold me died. I bought the mirror, bought the swing, bought the ladder, and that bird didn\u2019t say a mumbling word. It just fell over and died.\u201d<\/p>\n
The store owner said, \u201cI cannot believe that it died. Did it say anything before it died?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, while it was falling over dead, it looked up with one eye open and said, \u2018Don\u2019t they serve any food at that pet store?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
For four weeks, that bird hadn\u2019t eaten. The woman kept buying all the wrong stuff. That\u2019s what a lot of us look for\u2014all the wrong stuff. The things we hope will solve our problems die on us. They don\u2019t produce what we expect.207<\/p>\n
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