Today Is Not The Day (That Boy Who Cried Wolf Too Much)
Although there is always a time for humor, there is never, ever a time for genuine foolishness.
This is what I mean by my title.
There is a time and place for everything in life and death, and genuine silliness is always a waste of time.
Whether it is watching a political advertisement that lies too much or something genuinely ridiculous that you know is a waste of time but it is pursued anyway like "crying wolf" too much in a situation as a joke that goes too far.
My point is, we can laugh at ourselves sometimes and appropriately.
But when the joke goes too far, that is where we should all stop, think and get real at that moment.
Some days are weird, I do not deny that.
But, we must always think before we act, and be what we want to be in our minds before we can do and have anything.
Although this is a humorous article it will be "peppered" with serious advice on going too far with anything or any joke.
The boy screamed "wolf, wolf" and laughed himself to sleep every night until the people in the town did not take him seriously anymore when he was finally eaten by a wolf in his sleep.
So the legend goes.
Realistically, trust is earned, not given.
It is earned through honest actions that are accurate, they can be or cannot be humorous, but either way, the actions are accurate and honest.
What stinks about dishonest actions is that they are the ultimate way of crying "wolf".
If you want the ultimate "wolf" cry, in American politics we see "disaster" and "scandal" being cried every few minutes on the news.
What will happen when it actually happens? "Wolf, wolf!", "disaster on the fiscal cliff, disaster on the fiscal cliff!" Will everyone get out the champagne and say "prosperity, prosperity and we have a good credit rating in this country with Standard and Poor, and every credit rating system that ever lived again!"? So, I know, that is an extreme example of "today is not the day" and the boy who cried "wolf".
But, to be honest, there is not any proper time for a 'joke' like that on everybody in the case I just talked about in that portion I wrote a second ago on American Politics.
The boy cries "wolf", Dennis Rodman cries "foul" at all the piercings he inflicted on his own body after the basketball game, and America cries "disaster".
Is today ever the day for a bad joke? When it really happens and is not a horrible joke, disaster, foul or wolf, will God say "good luck and deal with it"? He always does, because reality is never a joke, it is what we live and die, for good or bad.
Preferably, by any of us, even the worst of us, for our good and benefit.
Hero or villain, we all want to win our cause and get a good effect.
But either way and realistically, it is what it is.
This is what I mean by my title.
There is a time and place for everything in life and death, and genuine silliness is always a waste of time.
Whether it is watching a political advertisement that lies too much or something genuinely ridiculous that you know is a waste of time but it is pursued anyway like "crying wolf" too much in a situation as a joke that goes too far.
My point is, we can laugh at ourselves sometimes and appropriately.
But when the joke goes too far, that is where we should all stop, think and get real at that moment.
Some days are weird, I do not deny that.
But, we must always think before we act, and be what we want to be in our minds before we can do and have anything.
Although this is a humorous article it will be "peppered" with serious advice on going too far with anything or any joke.
The boy screamed "wolf, wolf" and laughed himself to sleep every night until the people in the town did not take him seriously anymore when he was finally eaten by a wolf in his sleep.
So the legend goes.
Realistically, trust is earned, not given.
It is earned through honest actions that are accurate, they can be or cannot be humorous, but either way, the actions are accurate and honest.
What stinks about dishonest actions is that they are the ultimate way of crying "wolf".
If you want the ultimate "wolf" cry, in American politics we see "disaster" and "scandal" being cried every few minutes on the news.
What will happen when it actually happens? "Wolf, wolf!", "disaster on the fiscal cliff, disaster on the fiscal cliff!" Will everyone get out the champagne and say "prosperity, prosperity and we have a good credit rating in this country with Standard and Poor, and every credit rating system that ever lived again!"? So, I know, that is an extreme example of "today is not the day" and the boy who cried "wolf".
But, to be honest, there is not any proper time for a 'joke' like that on everybody in the case I just talked about in that portion I wrote a second ago on American Politics.
The boy cries "wolf", Dennis Rodman cries "foul" at all the piercings he inflicted on his own body after the basketball game, and America cries "disaster".
Is today ever the day for a bad joke? When it really happens and is not a horrible joke, disaster, foul or wolf, will God say "good luck and deal with it"? He always does, because reality is never a joke, it is what we live and die, for good or bad.
Preferably, by any of us, even the worst of us, for our good and benefit.
Hero or villain, we all want to win our cause and get a good effect.
But either way and realistically, it is what it is.
I do not lay blame, nor do I put fault on anyone who lives in a vault.
It is all right Mom, it is life and life only.
-Bob Dylan
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