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Today’s Thought to Share - You ARE as good as me (or are YOU?)
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Morning all!
My get-up-and-go apparently got up and went, and my energy level right now is, oh, gee, lemmee see….close to attaining the heights of fresh molasses running uphill on a cold winter morning. It might have been teh 350 pushups I did in batches of 50 throughout yesterday, or maybe the agonizingly long drive when I took the kids to the Rail Road Museum, or the fact that my sleep was less sound than an Iron Maiden concert….
Lethargic - thy name is Barbara!
But I digress. 
Today’s thought of the day centers upon the excellent quote:
Democracy means not "I am as good as YOU are" but "YOU are as good as I am."
I found out about it from Crow’s Daily Dose (a superb newsletter and comic - do sign up yourself so you can be greeted with things like the following in the morning:
…There pretty much wasn’t a progressive issue of the day that he didn’t take a stand on and he was one of the major voices in the north against slavery. Given this attitude, the quote given above isn’t a surprise.
The difference between the two sentences is profound. The first smacks of whining and self-entitlement. I’m as good as you - hence deserve what you have. Nothing attractive about that. The second reflects the depth of his moral beliefs. "You are as good as I am." Here is no sense of superiority, of being better than someone else because of money, breeding or connections. A democratic outlook indeed…. …MORE….
What do you think? Me, I’ve reached the age in which I’ve discovered I’m still but a student in this thing called "life". Character-building it’s certainly been…and I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Enjoy,
Barbara Ling
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