Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

We tend to love to live with our own problems.

I read recently of a great innovation in fonts for programmers. Someone has just invented a new font that makes it easy to tell the difference between the number one and the lowercase letter L. Wow! 2015 and we’ve finally solved the problem.

I first encountered this great innovation in 1987. Someone at work found a font where…blah blah blah. This is a one followed by an L: 1 l . I must be using some advanced font because I can tell the difference.

All this blather about programmers and fonts illustrates on aspect of human life and endeavor:

We love our unsolvable problems.

Let me tell you about all the unsolvable problems in my life (I won’t go into them at this time, but if you want to know…).

Understand please, my life is full of troubles that no one can solve (like the number one and the letter L). Don’t suggest any quick fixes. I have explored all of them and proven them to be faulty. You see, I am a tough, tough person. I must be tough, because I have pushed and pushed against my unsolvable problems and found a way through my sheer fill-in-the-blank-with-a-good-attribute to live life regardless.

I don’t want anyone to solve my unsolvable problems. If they did, my excuses and fill-in-the-blank-with-a-good-attribute would both cease to exist.