Life is full of curve balls

As we all transition ourselves through this blessing called life, we would all agree that encounters of the proverbial ”bumps in the road” occur.  I firmly believe we are personaly and sometimes corporately defined based on how we navigate these bumps. 

In baseball, the toughest pitch to hit is a well placed curve ball – no doubt about it.  The difference is by hitting the baseball curve 30% of the time you are a hero to many and in life if you miss it just once people (friends, family, and even others that just know you) get confused at why you missed. 

Admittedly, I have missed my own curve balls, fast balls, and sliders – but at the end of the day when realizing a missed opportunity to do the right thing has passed me by, I feel crappy. 

Right now I am thinking the presidential candidates are feeling pretty crappy – because they are missing the perfect opportunities to do the right things just so they MIGHT win an election.  I do know that a curve ball I am not willing to hit is someone that professes new taxes and uses a 5% number as the rule of thumb for these new taxes to touch - when in reality every tax touches 100% and no way is it less than 100%.

God Bless all!

 

KA