STORY: Mixing Priorities by Carlos Valles

Story title: Mixing Priorities
by: Carlos Valles

     If we like something very, very much, it can get our judgment out of focus. It can mix up our priorities. It can make us put the cart before the horse, or let the tail wag the dog.
    Take a practical case. A workman from Madang is delighted to find that buses going to lae now have television in them. So do the ones travelling to Goroka. Our man has to make his usual trip to Lae to go to work. He buys his ticket and hops aboard the bus. As he is taking his seat, he asks the
driver what video they'll be showing today. He finds that it is one has already seen. So he gets off the bus and goes over to the Goroka one, which travels in the opposite direction.
     They will be showing his favorite movie during that trip.
     So off our man goes, changes his ticket, and eventually lands in Goroka. What for? Nothing really.. But it doesn't matter. Seeing his favorite movie made up for it.
    That is a typical case of a person who mixes up priorities. People like that put what they LIKE to do ahead of what they HAVE to do.
    Would you hire someone like that?