Much of the current concern over fishing stocks in many countries is about fishermen using too fine a mesh in their nets and catching too many immature fish.
All of us have a personal fishing net. It is made up of the standards and beliefs we use to determine how and what we react to in life. The nets are personal because they differ in one way or another for everyone in life. What I react to, you may not. People react in many different ways to the same event because we all have a different size of mesh in our net of life’s perception. We may not realize it, but we choose the size of that mesh in our life. For some it’s very broad and wide. For others, it’s quite narrow. Some people are fortunate. They are able to adjust that mesh to different situations. Others can’t and become locked into one rigid response to life.
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If the mesh in your net of life is too big, everything will go right by and you’ll seldom catch onto or react to things happening around you. You may allow too many things to happen and put up with maltreatment from others that deserves to be challenged. You may continually overlook opportunities for self-improvement since you don’t see them.
If your mesh is too fine, you catch or grab too much and have to deal with small or insignificant things you should ignore or overlook. You become overloaded, socially and emotionally. You carry around too much and your net gets plugged. You need to clean it out, but you feel overwhelmed and do nothing. Because of that, those problems hang around and usually get worse.
We all need to respond to what happens around us. But to respond well, you need to have a healthy size of mesh in your reaction net of life. The mesh size also needs to be flexible. For things that are not important you need to widen that mesh a bit. Yet, on other issues, particularly your need to be treated with respect and consideration, your mesh of tolerance may need to be narrowed at times so you’ll stand up for yourself.
