The poet Maya Angelou offers the advice, “Don’t Commit to a relationship until you see how that person handles lost luggage.”   She continues with  a long and extensive list of life’s frustrations — situations where you would be able to see how the other person handles themselves through any myriad of modern life’s  ‘screw-ups’.  The lost luggage example is my favourite, but other examples could include being stuck in traffic, no access to wi-fi, a baby crying on a plane, the waiter mixing up orders, and on and so on.

I know golfers who say you don’t really know a person until you play a round of golf with them.  The game provides ample opportunity to observe how a person deals with frustrations, or whether they can be patient with others.

Observe before you commit, or accept a job offer, or offer a job, or marry.

The wisdom in this is not new, nor is it unique to Maya Angelou and golfers.  

There is a saying in Buddhism that they way you do one thing is the way you do everything.  In other words, you need only observe a person dealing with one frustration and you know how they deal with all their frustrations… (or maybe how you handle your own).

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