Saturday 18 July 2009

Looking on the Bright Side.

"Everything in the world is perfect, so there must be a God" said a visiting Mormon.

Had I been unkind I might have replied "Even your acne?", but I was feeling benevolent so I just told him to enjoy the sunshine.

2 comments :

Gerard said...

Were you hoping that a melanoma later in life might shake his optimism?

Richard said...

I think such cheerfulness depends on an unspoken assumption that misfortunes are only experienced by other people, whose sufferings somehow contribute to the GREATER GOOD