One would think, given all of the craziness in our world today, that I would be sitting at my computer ready to slam out a written piece on the craziness of our fellow human beings. According to science, humans began to evolve as a specie some two hundred thousand years ago. Which raises a question. Why did it take us one hundred ninety eight thousand, one hundred and thirty seven years to discover that our earth was round? And this being the case, should we humans be surprised that so many of us, even in this day, carry around in our hearts and minds bigoted concepts that threaten the very existence of fellow human beings. So, faced with the constancy of wars and poverty and so many other challenges to our human existence, why am I not jumping on the bandwagon to push for solutions to our problems?
I don’t have an answer. But I do know that I find my time far better spent looking at old Andy Griffith shows. Take for instance yesterday. There was Andy Griffith in his Andy Taylor role getting ready to punish his son Opie for lying to his father about his recent school report card. But Opie was nowhere to be found. And on Opie’s bed was a note explaining to his dad that Opie had decided to run away.
When Andy Taylor found Opie walking on the road out of town, Andy’s first question to his son was why was he running away? And Opie explained. He felt he had let his father down with his bad grades and his failure to tell him of his grades and Opie had decided to run away and to find a way to do something that might work to earn back his father’s respect for Opie.
And that’s when Andy sat down with Opie and told him that he, Andy, had been wrong to make it seem that all that mattered to him was that Opie had gotten wonderful grades. Opie, his father said to him, you always only need to do the best that you can. In the end, I love and respect you for who you are and not for what your grades are.
And I thought .... Amen.
I don’t have an answer. But I do know that I find my time far better spent looking at old Andy Griffith shows. Take for instance yesterday. There was Andy Griffith in his Andy Taylor role getting ready to punish his son Opie for lying to his father about his recent school report card. But Opie was nowhere to be found. And on Opie’s bed was a note explaining to his dad that Opie had decided to run away.
When Andy Taylor found Opie walking on the road out of town, Andy’s first question to his son was why was he running away? And Opie explained. He felt he had let his father down with his bad grades and his failure to tell him of his grades and Opie had decided to run away and to find a way to do something that might work to earn back his father’s respect for Opie.
And that’s when Andy sat down with Opie and told him that he, Andy, had been wrong to make it seem that all that mattered to him was that Opie had gotten wonderful grades. Opie, his father said to him, you always only need to do the best that you can. In the end, I love and respect you for who you are and not for what your grades are.
And I thought .... Amen.
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