Friday, June 11, 2010

Trouble Can Be Troubling

Big trouble, little trouble, bad trouble, there are all kinds of trouble. But I have never heard of good trouble. Well, there are some men who think a beautiful woman is good trouble. I will speak no names, you know who you are. How do we define trouble? It's usually complicated. At the least, it complicates our lives. It is an inconvenience that is usually time consuming (eats up our time), almost always costs us money one way or another, and can be very painful either physically, mentally or emotionally. It is also almost always unfair. Some people never seem to have any trouble, and, in fact, appear to be extremely lucky. Other people always seem to either be getting into trouble, or have trouble befalling them (getting into trouble usually implies doing something to make it happen; befalling means the person did nothing to deserve it). And it really doesn't matter how good or upstanding a person you are. Trouble will still find you. Sometimes it seems that good people have more trouble than bad people. I suppose, as they say, how you handle trouble shows what kind of a person you are. But one thing is for sure, trouble is always waiting for us. A friend of mine said there is no life without struggle. Maybe we can also say, there is no life without trouble. Can I get an Amen, brothers and sisters?

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