Be Good For Something

This is pressure. To not simply be good, but to be good for something. Look, Milt and Edie, it's hard enough to be good in this world. Seriously. I work hard every day on that one. Just yesterday I backed into someone's car and I had to make that age old decision to leave a note or not leave a note. I didn't end up hurting their car except I left a pretty dark mark on a nice white car. So I left a note and then got yelled at for leaving a note but I felt good about leaving note.

So let's talk about the note leaving incident. Maybe that was my moment to be good for something. I was being good for all the people who had bumped into cars and hadn't left notes. Or all the times that I had opened up my car door and scratched the other car and hadn't left a note (okay let's be honest that's more than I'd like admit, I'm a "wide car door opener")

Being good for something is more than just leaving a note. Parents have a reason to be good, they get to be a role model. I swear like a truck driver but when I'm around kids I try to keep my mouth clean. Kids have a reason to be good, because if they aren't their parents will punish them.

So without kids or without parents who am I being good for?

This in-between stage, when you aren't a kid and you aren't a parent is kind of an interesting moral time when you don't really have to be good for anyone. You don't really have to save money, you can go out all the time, you don't have to leave notes on cars, you can do what ever the hell you want, you don't have to bother to be good, let alone to be good for something.

Good thing Milt and Edie reminded me to think about being good for something. Or else I would have just rushed past that part.