Mr. Milton's Miraculous Depression Cure

This next one is an old saw that's been tossing around the inspiration blogs for awhile.  Sort of like that meme graphic where President Lincoln says something about quotes you find on the Internet.  I still think it's cool, anyway.

What makes the story remarkable is that it presents a very simple, very obvious solution to a deeply ingrained problem many people deal with.  Its a solution I've written about on this blog more than once.  Often I have to keep reminding myself to practice it.

The story describes a depressed disabled spinter wanting to die.  Her nephew arranged to have her visited by Milton Erickson, a psychiatrist and hypnotist know for his unorthodox methods of getting spectacular results with patients.  He gave her purpose.

The solution was very simple, but it saved her life.  She lived another twenty years and passed away mourned by thousands. People pay large sums of money for help with what Erickson solved for free, with AFRICAN VIOLETS.

Bill O'Hanlon, one of Erickson's colleagues, shares the story:

Eat Me.

When they gave Darshan Chandan poor service in a restaurant, he started something.

Darshan fired off a complaint to the resataurant management, who apologized and offered him some free food.  He told them to feed it to hungry children. They did.

In his surprise, Darshan started thinking. "What if...?" he asked himself.

What he started went on to move a multitude of people, all of them acting in a coordinated network, doing things they would have not considered doing before.  The network fed starving children and motivated a few of them to reach for higher things.  A popular movement actually accomplished what it set out to do, and is still doing it.  All according to plan.

The rest, as they say, is history.  Here is his story.

http://www.dailygood.org/story/1215/how-a-disappointing-restaurant-experience-turned-into-an-effort-that-now-feeds-1200-kids-meryl-garcia/