A hat, the well, and insanity.

Here's one definition of insanity: doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.

My friend Charles explains it like this:

· I go to a well for water and it doesn't have any water. I am disappointed.

· I go away and come back. The well still doesn't have any water. I am shocked.

· I leave and come back a third time. But this time . . . I'm wearing a hat!

And yet we all do this — all of the time.

We expect that because we have "put on a hat" that the dry wells in our lives will suddenly contain water.

We need to face reality, make the changes we can, and then stop going to empty wells — with or without hats.

Spiritual-religious advice: Don’t think that because you are doing something different that people in your life will necessarily act differently.