Walt Hampton, J.D.

Creating the Work & Life You LOVE

Catching Monkeys
September 24, 2009

This is not a riddle.

Question:  How do you catch a monkey?

Answer: The same way we get caught ourselves.

Catching a monkey is fairly easy.  Find a coconut and go to the jungle where monkeys live.  Cut a small hole in one end of the coconut  so that a monkey can just slide its hand in. Fill the coconut with fruit. Tether the other end of the coconut  to a stake driven in the ground.

Now here’s the cool part:  a monkey will come along and, smelling the fruit,  stick its hand into the hole in the coconut.  When the monkey closes its fist around the fruit, it won’t be able to pull its arm free from the coconut. Voila, it’s caught!  Go get your monkey and take it home.

Of course if the monkey gave any thought to this, it would realize that it isn’t really caught at all.  All it has to do is release its grasp and slide its hand out of the coconut. And run free.

But, you see, monkeys like their fruit.  Once they get their hands around some, they’re not about to let go.  Even if it means freedom.

Sometimes holding on is a good thing – like when the drop below is a couple thousand feet.

But most of the time refusing to let go leaves us caught – like monkeys.

The image was made by my friend and fellow photographer Matt Stauble in Tanzania while we were on safari together.  Check out his website at Matt Stauble Photo.

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Avoid being a monkey.

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