Waiting for a gooder...

This summer, I had the good fortune of working with a fantastic, beautiful person! I’m not sure if she is aware, but she silently encouraged and inspired me through her actions and her unspoken thoughts. She had a contagious joy that literally oozed making it impossible to be grumpy around her! One day, while digging for tubers, we were talking about boys. After much talk of the not so impressive boys that we had crossed paths with, we both promised that we would wait for a ‘gooder’. I sit here tonight, thinking of that promise. I tend to be a pessimistic person, not one to see the glass as half full. Is there really a gooder out there for everyone? If you look around our society today…how many marriages end happily ever after? What is the percentage of divorce? I don’t know the numbers, but I would guess they are quite high. Where are these gooders hiding if so many people’s marriages or relationships don’t last? Do we spend our life searching for a gooder, but give up and decide to settle with the next best thing? Is that why marriage has become a joke…no one is patient enough to continue the gooder search? We may not be patient enough, but what if, when we start our search, we are just being entirely too optimistic. Tonight, I choose to be optimistic that there is a gooder out there for everyone, especially me, and that we just need to do a little looking to find them. I hope to keep my promise of finding a gooder. I also hope that I am not one to settle with the next best thing. I encourage everyone to join me in my search for a gooder.
I want to thank Kara for making me realize that I don’t have to settle, and although I hated them, thanks for all the ‘sad looks’. I really needed them! To everyone else…Good luck ‘gooder’ searching…don’t give up!


Song of the week: "Sexy Back" - Justin Timberlake (Fantastic song!)