Winning Words 6/16/09
“Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.” (Regina Brett) Some corrections from yesterday: Britt should be Brett, and Regina is 53-years-old, not 90. Evidently someone on the internet thought it would be more interesting to attribute the article to a 90-year-old. It seemed to work, because it’s been circulated around the world. In reality, is it a person’s age, or is it the thought that counts? Her words are still good. ;-) Jack
FROM MKH IN MICHIGAN: Yes they are!
FROM K.B. IN MICHIGAN: I once had a boss who talked about her children's idea of fairness being that everyone gets exactly the same thing--she reminded them that one child often has a greater need than another and fairness was not about equality--I guess that is what this quote is about--so bottom line is it is one of my favorites. Thanks for being in my life. JACK'S REPLY: Life...Fair...Good! A definition is needed for each.
FROM HILLTOPPER JOHN: I think it depends on how we define "good." That isn't easily done. Is life "good" for the people who were involved in the Armenian genocide? For the Hutus and Tutsis? etc. JACK'S REPLY: And while you're at it, also give me a definition for, fair.
FROM GOOD DEBT JON: Probably someone in the Obama admin. They sometimes hit their budget numbers within 100 percent of their projections. But I am sure they meant well. JACK'S REPLY: It would be a good world if we all tried to mean...well. Now, for a definition of, well.
FROM CWR IN B'MORE: .......one of my father's quotes, and I don't know where he got it it was....."don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see"......and I do know this, from personal experience in court that "Eyewitness accounts are the least reliable bits of evidence" according to the Judge....and I was an eyewitness..... Cheers!!! Remember Truman Capote: "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story
FROM L.K. IN OHIO: Sometimes I think life is not good, but it's nonetheless fair........why, because it's God's world, not mine....
FROM MOLINER C.F.: Yeh, it meant more coming from a 90 year old. What the hell does a 53 year old know about life?
1 comment:
This is another really interesting quote. plus it's really interesting what happened on the internet. I always have a hard time dealing with life isn't fair and tend to want to think that somehow, in the grand picture of things, in things happening beyond our ken, that, in fact, justice is constantly being meted out. Seems like we can't never see the whole thing of what's happening inside and outside of people. Since Regina Brett can state "It's still good" her insides must maybe might be extending some amount of fairness to people around her in what she says and in what she does.
Chewing on all of your words this morning, Pastor Freed, and find Regina, the internet, anonymous computer users, and your own thoughts and those of others on your blog intriguing.
S.H. in MI
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