Stream of Consciousness

Al Bundy the shoe salesman, on Married… with Children, to a woman who says she knew all along he would be a failure:

I was having a conversation with my buddy Sam about life and stuff the other day. I won’t get into the details of the conversation, but I will say that at one point I was relating about my perception of how people react to me – mostly what I say at times. My “complaint” in all of my stories was that people often take what I say too personally. Sam’s interjection to this was “What’s the common denominator?”…and while I understand where he was coming from, I don’t think it’s as simple as it might seem…

I didn’t blog last week. And that’s OK. I was prepared to accept the penalty but since I had never imposed a penalty on Sam when HE didn’t blog we decided to just call it even and reset the “penalty box”. I guess you might ask “So what’s the purpose of a ‘penalty box’ then?!”…and my answer would be…I don’t know…I’m not perfect!

So give me a break this week!

At what point should we give up hope? Is there a point of diminishing returns for what’s possible? Is quitting before “the end” acceptable? Let’s talk about it…

You KNOW where I am on Wednesdays!