A man had a wife and two daughters. He was not a bad man. The man did not believe in being sick or moping or feeling sorry for yourself. The man had found that if you ignore weaknesses in yourself you can forget them. After a while the weakness may as well never have been there. One should get a grip and get on with things. Not believing in illogical things came natural to the man.

The man broke his leg while skiing. He found it hard to believe that his leg was in a cast. Though he did not fully believe in the cast it angered him that his leg took six weeks to heal.

Being around three representatives of the fair sex, the man was constantly exposed to their over-sensitivity. Their ways were often soft and exaggerated. The wife and daughters were often sad about something or needed something. A man could lose momentum and be destroyed by so much drama if he believed in it. The man could not believe in many of the things the wife and daughters said.

The man signed the daughters up for a swim team but they refused to get better than their team mates. He took them skating. They refused to tie the shoelaces of their skates. He took them skiing but they wasted time and money in the warm shelter claiming they were cold. Like three collapsed Raggedy Ann-dolls the wife and daughters seemed unfit to deal with anything that happened to them without his help. It was almost as if they did it on purpose. It was almost as if they refused to be happy to spite him. He told his daughters how to get rich but they were not interested. Later, they ignored his invitations to learn badminton as well as tennis.

The man’s wife and daughters could ambush him at any time with their demands:

“Father there is something wrong with me. I throw up everything I eat.”
“Father there is something wrong with Mother. Her thinking is strange and we are afraid of her.”
“Husband, I believe that you no longer love me. Unless you tell me that you love me I am leaving you.”

The man found their demands unreasonable. He did not believe they were being logical. What would it be like if everyone made their way through life by asking others to solve their problems?