The Road To Hell And All
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Here is my deep thought for today: The biggest problem with most of the people I encounter daily is that they don’t understand that they can be both well-intentioned and wrong. They think that somehow having warm and fuzzy feelings means they can’t be completely screwing something up.
When I was a child I once caught this enormous caterpillar. It was incredibly cool looking, with interesting patterns of red and yellow on a black body and those whacky caterpillar spiky hair things everywhere. It was the coolest bug I had ever seen. I decided to make it my pet and I prepared a suitable jar with air holes poked in the top and a stick inside for lounging. I was thrilled. I looked in the jar with pride and happiness. I had a fine pet and had given him comfortable lodgings. In case he got hungry, I even dropped a chunk of bologna down into the jar with him. Two days later, when I had a jar full of rotten bologna and dead caterpillar, I learned what the word herbivore meant. All the warm and fuzzy feelings I had were no match for the unrelenting power of my ignorance.
It amazes me how few people have learned that simple lesson.
