An Israeli mayor in a small town was walking past a construction site with his wife. One of the construction workers stopped and shouted, “What’s new, Sara?”
“Why, it’s nice to see you again Avi,” the mayor’s wife replied. She then introduced her husband to the construction worker, and they spoke for several minutes. After the mayor and his wife continued on, the mayor turned to his wife to asked how she knew the construction worker.
“Oh,” she said. “We went together in high school. I even thought about marrying him.”
The husband began to laugh. “You don’t realize how lucky you are. If I hadn’t come along, today you would be the wife of a construction worker!”
The wife replied without hesitation, “Not really. If I had married him, he’d now be a mayor!”
We are never alone. We make ourselves and, at the same time, are made by those that surround us. -Rabbi Eli Perlman
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