As vernacular wisdom says: You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. How happy the people are who avoid frustration by not trying to get a horse to drink water when it has no thirst or doesn’t like water. Show people the water. Show them how cool and refreshing it is. When they are dehydrated, tell them that water would help them. Tell them how much you would enjoy drinking water together. Show them what it has done for you. Burp loudly. But realize that you can’t make them drink. That is something they will do only when and if they want to. Remember . . . they are free to
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