Just a little dirt on it...

The secret to living on this planet is learning to live with dirt. Everything we touch is dirty on some level. All the food we eat, all the water we drink... it all contains some pollution at some level. All the things we touch are dirty. All the social structures show cracks, all the people we meet are broken. The key to surviving, and perhaps even thriving, is to find the pearls in the muck.

I remember a sermon illustration about morality that I heard once, where this guy wants to teach his son that he should flee any appearance of evil, by asking his son if he wants some of his brownies that have a little bit of dog poop in them...

but... you know... all brownies have a little bit of dog shit in them... at some level. This whole world is submerged in shit. The only way to move forward, is to pick out the bits of chocolate... and hope you can taste the difference.

Everything is broken. Every action has a bad motive somewhere. It is the nature of the curse, that everything is sullied...

The best we can do is minimize the shit, maximize the chocolate...

The best we can do is fix as best we can, in the time we have left...

The best we can do is try to make the people around us better, and forgive them when they aren't perfect...

The best we can do is to do our best, and forgive ourselves when it isn't good enough...

The best we can do is move along, when the shit takes over...