Saturday, February 2, 2008

Naive

One of the few things I have left is my naivete. I love it. What frustrates me is when people try to take it away. For example, I'm all excited about tomorrow's rally. It made me feel good to get an email from Ms. Clinton's campaign asking me to RSVP and asking how many guests. I replied. I thought, heck, maybe the security won't be as terrible, or maybe we'll get slightly better seats for the rally.

The response I get from the people I told is, "Oh, no, it doesn't make a difference." You know, I know that, intellectually. But is it so hard to let me have that moment?

So, the question is, how much does it matter to be right?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It DOES make a difference, and anyone who says differently is simply wrong. (Yes, it's possible that I likewise have a need to be right sometimes.)

But if everyone sat on their ever-widening butts, leaving nothing other than an ass print on their couch as their legacy, the country might as well be at war, destroy the environment, let everyone slip further and further into debt, lose their homes, etc. etc. etc.

It DOES make a difference for those who believe. And the non-believers are either lazy or stupid.