Hi everybody!
These last couple of days have been a little stressful for me - good stress, but stress.
Someone posted one of my blogs somewhere, and suddenly the traffic coming to my blog grew significantly higher.
I have to admit, it was a little worrisomel. I used to be an actress when I was younger, but I gave it up because I didn't love the idea of so many people looking at me.
Strange, right? I'm writing a blog - and I am happy to get readers. Maybe the problem is because traffic is called 'views', and suddenly I'm picturing hundreds of eyeballs looking at me again.
Maybe it's the thought of the inevitable trolls that come with success - they're certainly not who I'm writing for, and I'm getting my rhino skin ready. Just the world we live in now, but it's not pleasant to think about. No one loves the thought of being arbitrarily judged, when those who judge know little to nothing about us.
Anyway, those people have left, and we're back to just being us again. :-) Let's look at another quote, shall we?
Today's quote comes from President N. Eldon Tanner, from his still-timely and very-appropriate-to-the- topic-at-hand talk, "Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged" in the April 1971 General Conference. He posted this pleasant couplet with no listing of where it came from:
The Poem Quote
“Wouldn’t this old world be better
If the folks we meet would say:
‘I know something good about you,’
And then treat us that way?”
Ah - an anti-troll world. Something else that I'm looking forward to in eternity with God one day, certainly...but who wrote this poem? President Tanner doesn't say.
I, however, am very happy to say that I have uncovered the author - this is from a poem entitled, "I Know Something Good About You", which was written by the Reverend Louis Charles Shimon, a Lutheran minister from Wisconsin.
The full text of this anti-troll anthem is as follows:
Wouldn’t this old world be better
If the folks we meet would say -
“I know something good about you!”
And treat us just that way?
Wouldn’t it be fine and dandy
If each handclasp, fond and true,
Carried with it this assurance -
“I know something good about you!”
Wouldn’t life be lots more happy
If the good that’s in us all
Were the only thing about us
That folks bothered to recall?
Wouldn’t life be lots more happy
If we praised the good we see?
For there’s such a lot of goodness
In the worst of you and me!
Wouldn’t it be nice to practice
That fine way of thinking, too?
You know something good about me,
I know something good about you?
