Today is about ranting…it’s the darn monotone rain that keeps dripping since last night. I shouldn’t complain, we haven’t had one of these in quite a few months, but this still doesn’t make it less boring! AND I can’t go site hunting for you….So I assume homebound activities, hoping that the cabin fever won’t make any of us go bonkers! As I am browsing the latest posts, I stumble upon this parable of the goose with the golden eggs that got me up in my seat: Yeah! Right? Right?!Can’t they see that?! I went back and read it a few times. Well, after the last reading it wasn’t so much of a revelation, but a mere presentation of facts, but it hit the spot. I guess it struck a cord with me and the “aha!” moment was just in my head… I’ll blame it on the rainy day…
But in all truth, I guess the mentality is out there that some money is free, and you can use it as you wish, and hope you don’t get caught doing what you’re not supposed to do. Like money for your B’day…When budgeting should be just that, making sure that the money you asked for and, thank heavens, you received, is going where you wanted to put it in the first place. You don’t go to the bank to ask for a loan to buy a car and then go use it on a cruise, right? ‘Cause if you are, then… you kinda missed it there..
It might just be me and this rainy day playing with my common sense, but when the nation’s main debate is spending, and there’s not foreseen end for this economic draught, thinking that some money is free is plain nonsense! And yet so many do it, and get away with it. Or worse, they get caught and then thousands of kids have to pay for it.
It must be the sarcasm that we all learn to mimic for fear that the world around us will find us unfit, weak, unworthy of consideration, that makes this thinking possible. It’s like saying, oh, well, others did it too, what’s the bid deal? And you dare say differently, beware! It is the other way, in fact! You aren’t weak when you are scared, you are strong when you admit it, and find the way to make your fear go away, when you stand up to yourself, look yourself in the eye, and decide to get over it and do the right thing. We keep watching our kids for “peer pressure”, but what about grown-up peer pressure? Who watches out for us?
Here’s the reading that prompted my rantings. You decide for yourself.
http://columbianewsandviews.com/2011/07/19/6526/
As I wait for the end of this gray day, here’s a photo that might heal the wounds…
