Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

We never have time to to it right, but we always have time to do it again.

The summary above is an old cliche or common sense or something. The trouble with common sense is that it is usually common sense and rarely common practice. (Is that another cliche?)

Gosh. How many times do we have to go through this before we learn?

I think the problem is that Americans are forgiving. Is that a virtue or a problem? In the realm of doing it wrong, then right, I find it to be a problem. Forgiveness rendered upon apology comes to easily. Apologizing for doing something wrong doesn’t have enough pain. The apology is almost always followed with, “try again.”

So, we apologize and try again. We just didn’t have enough time to do it right the first time. Hence, we take lots of time to apologize, seek forgiveness, and try again.

Perhaps one day. Then again, this blog post wasn’t written so well. I didn’t have time. Please forgive me. Next time I will think more before writing and do better. Please.