Finding “Good” In Our World Is Challenging (standard:humor, 903 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: May 04 2019	Views/Reads: 1578/1116	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Since that episode, I have been looking at politicians a little bit differently. And if ever I have agreed with my wife, it is this time.

In our world today, it is difficult to find anything good, let alone
anything good to say about anything or anyone. 

One thing I like about the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage is that
she can find some good in just about everything. Sometimes it just rubs 
me the wrong way. 

I, on the other hand, have a hard time finding good in anything even
though I try so hard. That just demonstrates the difference between us. 
They say opposites attract, and so we have a very strong attraction 
here. 

For the most part, I go along with her evaluation of “Good” because she
has been right more times than wrong. Don't ask me when she has been 
wrong, for that would be a very delicate subject and I am not a very 
delicate person. 

One area of life I have a very difficult time finding anything good is
politics. I stay completely away from politics as much as possible. Oh 
yes, there have been those times that I greedily rubbed my hands and 
wanted to jump into that cesspool. Thankfully, I do have a little bit 
of common sense still lurking around in my head and refrain. 

The question I ponder quite often is, if you put all the politicians
together in one room could you find one little gray cell active? 
Perhaps the cost of being a politician is to give up all those tiny 
little gray cells that make the rest of us operate in a world of 
sanity. 

I try not to go any further than that, because I cannot trust myself
once I get started on the trail. As a young boy, I had a beagle I used 
to hunt rabbits. You've heard of the old rabbit trail. Once “Sparky” 
got on a rabbit trail he was never going to give up. There were times 
when I lost him for several hours while he was running that rabbit 
trail. He did not know how to give up. 

I do not want to get involved in that kind of activity. If I do not
start it, I do not have the compulsion to end it. It is like me and 
potato chips. If I eat one chip, I can't stop until all are gone. If I 
do not eat one, I do not have any problem. 

So, as much as is humanly possible, I stay away from politics. 

One evening this past week my wife and I were watching the news and the
whole thing was about politics. As for me, when they say Washington is 
broken, I know they really mean that the politicians are broken. In 
fact, they are broken beyond repair. 

However, as we were watching the news I was getting a little ticked. I
was grumbling about everything I was hearing, knowing a politician will 
say one thing today and the complete opposite tomorrow. That is because 
there is nothing in their brain cavity to create stability. 

For some reason, I started grouching out loud. It is one thing to grouch
and not express it out loud. It's a whole other ball game when I grouch 
out loud because my wife can hear me. As I was groaning and gritting my 
teeth my wife said, “You know, you ought to be very grateful about 
those politicians.” 

Oh boy, here we go. I crossed a line somewhere and was not sure how to
get back home. 

My wife is not afraid to express her opinion about anything. That
includes politics and politicians. I was trying to process this idea of 
being grateful about politicians. I could not come up with one idea 
that would lead me to a point of being grateful about politicians. I 
knew I needed to keep my mouth shut at this point. If I would express 
any ideas along this line, I know my wife, as usual, would have the 
last word. 

I was okay until this politician said something and all of a sudden, I
exploded, “What's wrong with that idiot? Doesn't he have any common 
sense?” 

When I finished my rant, I realized I said it out loud. When I say “out


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