Thursday, April 17, 2008
The best way I can describe Pope Benedict's birthday
healing, a balm, it's something we as a nation who suffered through 9/11 really needed. The news is always bad, always has been, seems ratings thrive on bad news, his papal visit coinciding with his 81st birthday, it's like just what the doctor ordered. I am usually not big on pomp and circumstance, though I wasn't there in person the sheer pageantry on the South Lawn of the White House yesterday I really enjoyed. Weatherwise the perfect day too, it's like God was smiling. 'Tis a simple blog today, Life in general is bad enough, I just found it healing is all.
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I don't like to see you write "life in general is bad enough", I mean its not perfect but that seems like you are discouraged.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Pope's visit, I am inspired by it as well, a big turnout at the White House, some open discussion in moral topics. Maybe some fallen away Catholics will come back to the Church. Those of us who haven't left will feel validated by his words.
Maybe it's also because the weather has turned so beautiful, or because there may be a good conservative to vote for afterall (Alan Keyes) but I am feeling rather optimistic myself today.
"Life in general is bad enough", it's not really a statement in pessimism just a philosophical point of view. Consider the current state of the economy, people losing their homes, the ever-climbing price of gas, a recession, the moral state of the nation (e.g. divorce, abortion, etc.), endless crime reported on our local TV news stations before we go to bed...now a total pessimist wouldn't have been the least bit inspired by the Pope, would've changed the channel. I'm not a glass is 1/2 empty kind of guy nor am I a glass is 1/2 full kind of guy, I just see the whole glass. All I'm saying is the Pope's birthday was like adding a little more healthy water to that glass is all.
ReplyDelete...or to put it another way pessimists and optimists are always at loggerheads, I like to think of myself as neither. I'll use another example, someone is in a hospital bed recuperating after cancer surgery, he may make it he may not, but seeing the pope on TV can only have a good effect I think. Life is what we make it.
ReplyDeleteI like your analogy of seeing the whole glass, I suppose that just makes you are a realist, nothing wrong with that. Best to be grounded rather than have your head in the clouds, or have it buried in the sand.
ReplyDeleteAs for the continuation of Pope Benedict's visit, I give him kudos for meeting with the sex abuse victims. I know he can't change the past, but I hope his gesture and prayers will help these victims' futures.
"I just see the whole glass."
ReplyDeleteWow. You and I share a common ideology Z. I'd only add that while I see the whole glass, I ask myself with what shall I fill it with.
The trouble with being an optimist is you set yourself up for disappointment time and again, best to be on an even keel. The glass shall be filled with 2 or 3 ice cubes, a healthy portion of your favorite brandy and some ginger ale.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking soapie of what you said here recently, that you like to think most people are not the greatest until they prove themselves otherwise. This came to mind when I was channel-surfing the other night and came upon some movie with Laurence Fishburne and Frank Langella, forget the name of it, they're like some CIA offshoot or something and they're recruiting the Fishburne character for something and the Ellen Barkin character says "he has a touch of paranoia" and Langella goes "that'd be good, it means he's careful." So is optimism and thinking the best of people at all times the way to go? in this day and age? (then I surfed on over to "The Never-Ending Story" on another channel),
ReplyDeletejust thinking out loud here folks.