why does it matter?
The whiners at work, led by the liberal over the cubicle wall, are at it again.
The large boss's secretary (excuse me, administrative assistant) sent out an e-mail this morning. It was pretty much a forward from someone else. A local man was in a motorcycle accident and died. He left a wife and kids, age 15, 13 and 6 with no life insurance. They are having an estate sale this weekend because they have no cash. The e-mail was basically saying, if you are so inclined, the estate sale is at such-and-such a place and time. There was a link to a website where you can see the stuff.
They went to the auctioneer's website and saw....very nice stuff. They live in Ponte Vedra, which is well known as a more affluent part of the greater J'ville area. So they're all up in arms. Aren't there better causes to be supporting than this once wealthy family, now trying to sell a Porsche, and a boat, and whatever, so they can keep their house on the intracoastal waterway?
Well, yeah, maybe. Well, yeah, of course there are. There are starving kids in Africa. There are homeless people in every city in America. There are plenty of more worthy causes....but so what? People pick who they can or want to help. They don't all pick the causes I like, and I don't always pick what they like. No matter what, we won't solve all the world's problems. This woman is cash strapped and is selling off a bunch of nice stuff. If you want to go and help her...go. If you don't, stay home. Why is there a sense of outrage? Why are you surprised that I'm not outraged (and they are surprised)? Why do you care what she does or doesn't have? Why does it matter? Does it affect your life in any way?
People who spend half their life looking over the fence at what other people have in envy....waste half their life.
The large boss's secretary (excuse me, administrative assistant) sent out an e-mail this morning. It was pretty much a forward from someone else. A local man was in a motorcycle accident and died. He left a wife and kids, age 15, 13 and 6 with no life insurance. They are having an estate sale this weekend because they have no cash. The e-mail was basically saying, if you are so inclined, the estate sale is at such-and-such a place and time. There was a link to a website where you can see the stuff.
They went to the auctioneer's website and saw....very nice stuff. They live in Ponte Vedra, which is well known as a more affluent part of the greater J'ville area. So they're all up in arms. Aren't there better causes to be supporting than this once wealthy family, now trying to sell a Porsche, and a boat, and whatever, so they can keep their house on the intracoastal waterway?
Well, yeah, maybe. Well, yeah, of course there are. There are starving kids in Africa. There are homeless people in every city in America. There are plenty of more worthy causes....but so what? People pick who they can or want to help. They don't all pick the causes I like, and I don't always pick what they like. No matter what, we won't solve all the world's problems. This woman is cash strapped and is selling off a bunch of nice stuff. If you want to go and help her...go. If you don't, stay home. Why is there a sense of outrage? Why are you surprised that I'm not outraged (and they are surprised)? Why do you care what she does or doesn't have? Why does it matter? Does it affect your life in any way?
People who spend half their life looking over the fence at what other people have in envy....waste half their life.
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John put this out here at 10:32 AM
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