Wishing Someone Dead

There's a lot of anger out there.  We've got a leader who likes to stoke up rage.  But it doesn't end with him, even if it often starts there.  A lot of people probably look around and wish whole swathes of others would just drop dead.

I'm not pretending I never do it either.  I've got my own list of people who sure seem to be wasting oxygen.

Only…there's a couple of problems with that.  One is the old chestnut about if wishes were horses, we'd be swimming in horse poop.  (Or something like that.)  Wishing is a waste of time.  Since you need to use oxygen while you're going about it, maybe don't go about it in the first place.  Do something constructive.

The second is that, look, there are terrible people out there.  Some will probably never change course.

And yet, once they die…that's it.  They're done.  Too late.  Finished.

No chance at redemption.  No possibility of ever stopping the harming they've done and starting to help instead.  Never again.

That's a worse waste than any oxygen.

And it's not a fate I'd wish on anyone.