Gooose-

As to mandatory sharing of the wealth, I'm with you. I don't share because I think it is owed, and I think it is a sad statement on our society that we see so many people that think everything must come easily. I preface most of my trips with, "Well, I hope we'll catch something..." If someone demands to know where to go, and what to do, I dissemble a bit.

I share, to the extent that I do, because I enjoy it. It is the ultimate in selfishness, because I get pleasure for it. And that makes me a little cautious about the sharing, because I only want to share it with people that I will like to be associating with. However, since I find that I like most people, and can learn from most people (if I can just keep my mouth shut!) I find that I can share with many.

You're right - those who want all of the pie now, are, well, impatient, and that certainly does not bode well for their success. But think about it - are the ones who want you to show it all to them now, even capable of receiving what they are told?

I tend to think that the folks who want it easily, will never get it easily, precisely because they won't work for it. And those of us who will work for their fish (and so many other things in life) find that they start to come easily.

So I don't worry about giving hints, because they who aren't worthy, won't benefit.

And, with a little thought in the manner of presentation, we can give them a much more meaningful and durable lesson.

"Present the fly in the foam, Grasshopper."

" But why, Master? The foam makes it so much harder to see the fly."

"Grasshopper, do you see the fish rising in the foam?"