Cause and Effect

When my friend Rob's child was a toddler he was worried that his boy might get too close to the wood burning stove. So Rob constructed a chicken wire fence to be a protective barrier for his son. Immediately the boy wandered over and got ensnared by the fence and got burned. "I was so worried about him getting hurt that the barrier caused the damage. Had I let him learn how hot it was he would have been better off," Rob said. I always think of this story as a metaphor for things I've tried to do. When I go out of my way to prevent getting burned I often cause it.