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Those who serve, speak or step forward
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Chomping at the bit

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There's a newspaper delivery run and town council meeting between here and my weekend.

I would hope that for my attention this evening, council will acutally have a meeting that is productive and shows leadership.

Wishful thinking very likely.

I shouldn't knock them so, they try hard to make sound decisions, but when they are all riled up?

It's hard to tell where they'll go.

I have friends on the council - smart, kind, sensible folks. Council meetings make them crazy, and I can understand why.

If I was in their position, I would have lost my temper a million times by now.

It seems, the minute a person steps forward to volunteer, serve or speak, the "mob" is quick and ruthless with attacks noting that person is somehow not worthy.

None of us are worthy of perfection, but those who serve only need to be willing to step forward.

The world is run by those who show up and stick with it. The world is ruined by those who show up to complain and create chaos.

I say that as a complainer you know. I think the world is run by idiots. But that's likely because no one sane and intelligent would submit themselves to the attacks that are sure to come with the service.

If I were ever to run for office? Boy, they'd slaughter me.

When I started working as a reporter, and subjects of my articles were just names and faces, it was easy to slam folks, hit them hard, "put them in their place".

But as I got to know them, I realized that they're just people, like you and me, some of them stupid, some of them wicked, but most of them human, and with good intentions, who just make mistakes.

They all bend the truth, "spin" the story their way.

Admit it, so do you and I.

There is not a single 100% dependable source in the whole county, this I can tell you.

It is human nature, and that's why it's referred to as "your side" of the story.

Stories can have a zillion sides: a different side for each witness, a different side for each person the witness told, a different version for each person involved and another for who they told... And then there's the truth of the matter, which none of the above have really told you all about.

This has been a lesson for me in recent years, and for some ignorant reason, it was a lesson I already had been taught, but refused to believe the moral of the story:

Don't trust anyone 100%.

Just trust that they are human.


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