With a gentle nod to Christopher Armitage and another to the Golden Rule: Here’s to all you folks who want the world to be better, wiser, more compassionate, more inclusive, less judgmental, and less rancorous. Good on you who extend moral concern beyond your own circle, beyond your own skin color, beyond your own language, beyond your own borders. It’s difficult, what you do; it costs you—sometimes dearly—but you do it anyway because it matters. Take credit for that. It’s rare. You’re one of a kind. Although you can still smile, happiness isn’t your goal. If it was, you’d be able to forget about people who suffer at the hands of tyrants and their henchmen. If happiness was what you wanted, you’d be able to ignore lawlessness, bullying, lying, greed, and cruelty. Give yourself a hand, bask in the knowledge that standing for truth by defending the thing that was supported by hard evidence is not easy. Keep fighting the good fight. Be counted. Celebrate the fact that you can think for yourself. You’ve found your purpose, your conscience is intact, and your principles are sound. You’re worth knowing. That’s not nothing.
Happy New Year
Pat Ponders Life 