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(you’re) Perfect

Lucas A. Davidson

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Daily Meditation 1,079–2/18/2025

As you’re walking out of Walmart, a dude beeps at you, nearly hitting you.

You’re trying to turn right (into oncoming traffic) and the guy behind you keeps laying on the horn.

Your neighbor has ratted you out to the HOA three times for not having your trash bin back inside by the curfew.

Another parent got up in your face when your kid got to go play in the game (again…) while theirs is still benched.

Your coworker keeps going to HR on everyone in your department for every hiccup, cough, or fart they do (not literally) to get people in trouble with the HR NKVD officers.

The parking spot you thought you were about to get has some jagaloon parked cockeyed over both his and your spot…

Rushing, you enter the public restroom, bladder ready to explode. The urinal is broken, one stall is clogged and heaped with TP and the other has poop drooping over the seat and onto the floor — there’s no where else!

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In all these instances which you may or may not have ever experienced, what’s your first reaction?

“Oh for f***’s sake!” is very possibly it.

Here’s the reframe — well it’s a good thing YOU’RE perfect…

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Lucas A. Davidson
Lucas A. Davidson

Written by Lucas A. Davidson

Daily philosophical meditations on Eudaimonia. These are distillations from the forthcoming book on the topic. Comments or jobs: lucas@multistatewide.com

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