Pale Side of Life » hope http://blog.palesideoflife.com There's a bright side and a dark side... so why not? Sun, 09 May 2010 16:26:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 The Daily Lie http://blog.palesideoflife.com/archives/11 http://blog.palesideoflife.com/archives/11#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:07:22 +0000 Chad http://blog.palesideoflife.com/?p=11 As I shuffle around the garage putting various items somewhere else they don’t belong, I see my neighbor drive up and park in his driveway.  We make brief eye contact and almost simultaneously raise our arms in a “man wave”-type motion.  “Hey, Bob, how are you?”  “I’m good, and you?”  “Doing good, thanks.”  Why did [...]]]> As I shuffle around the garage putting various items somewhere else they don’t belong, I see my neighbor drive up and park in his driveway.  We make brief eye contact and almost simultaneously raise our arms in a “man wave”-type motion.  “Hey, Bob, how are you?”  “I’m good, and you?”  “Doing good, thanks.”  Why did I just lie?  It wasn’t a big lie, just a small one, but a lie nonetheless.  I’m not good.  I’m not bad either. But I’m not good.  Work is scarce, money is tight, and politicians are telling me what they can do for me.  I’d just as soon have those politicians get the hell outta my way.  Maybe things are good for Bob, but I doubt it.  So why keep up the daily lie?

Eternal optimism I suppose.  Not hope, but optimism.  Hope ushered in our current president, therefore I have no hope.  But I do have optimism because I know what Americans are capable of inspite of roadblocks placed around them.  So I continue the daily lie knowing someday I won’t be lying.

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