Looking for What’s
Wrong
We all know someone (and maybe it’s
us) who wakes up in the morning looking for all of the wrong they can find in
anything they can see.
When I was
younger, I disliked these folks greatly, but now that I have an AARP card, and
live in the south, I feel for them and say things like “Bless their hearts.”
Seeking
wrong in everything is a tremendous burden; it fills the heart of the seeker
with all the sludge they go looking for.
The job of
the Wrong Seekers is getting much easier though. All you have to do is stand in
line at a grocery store or turn on the news or internet. There you will see all
that has gone wrong in the lives of young starlets, politicians and even the
boy next door.
Still, the
job of a seeker is to seek, so the sludge on the surface is not always enough,
they must seek the little details of things no one has seen or heard, and then
they can spread their new finds among those who seem just a little bit too
light in their step.
There will always be things that need
to be repaired, fixed and corrected and we should always be about the business
of being better, but you cannot wallow in what is wrong—it will not make you
right.
I’m not
saying that we should go through life with blinders on; I’m saying that we
should take them off. Nothing is all good, but nothing is all bad.
If all you can see is
death and destruction, it’s time to reboot.
Be you, be well, be
whole.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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