>It Is Not Only The Most Difficult Thing
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Josh Billings, 1818-1885, American humorist and writer
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Josh Billings, 1818-1885, American humorist and writer
That is the key, isn’t it. To stop oneself before doing something stupid or damaging or hurtful. Repenting in advance does seem to be the one thing people don’t do enough of!
Drawing © Marty Coleman
“It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.” – Josh Billings, American sage, 1818-1885
Hola friends,
First I wanted to let you know about an interview with me that just got published online at INSPIRATUS. I think it is pretty good and it has tons of my work showing as well as many of the artists who have influenced me over they years. You will learn a lot about me, if you care to!
Ok, now onto the napkin. THIS is one of those semantic pet peeves of mine.
People say it very casually, ‘Well, I did the best I can’. But, did they really? I had a heated discussion about this once with a friend. She was of the opinion that people ALWAYS do the best they can. I was of the opinion that people very often don’t.
I was basing it on my own experience. I know I very often do not pull out all the stops, focus myself entirely on doing the very best I can. It might be edging the lawn, it might be building a new fence, it might be in a relationship. But I often see where I could have done better. I didn’t do the best I could.
The one area I feel I always do the best I can is in my art. I am sure if I evaluated close enough I could find times I don’t, but as a rule I think I do. But I know in the promotion and business side of it I don’t do the best I can. I try, but do I try my best? I don’t think I do.
It is also philosophical to me. If you feel that people always do their best, then where is the incentive to progress? Where is the need to become better? I am not sure I get how those elements all work together in someone who always thinks they do their best.
What do you think?
Drawing © Marty Coleman
“The rarest thing a man ever duz iz the best he can.” – Josh Billings, 1818-1885, American aphorist and writer.
By the way, the misspellings are intentional. He purposely misspelled words often to build on his ‘homespun’ reputation.
“It is much easier to repent of sins we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.” – Josh Billings
Just think how much easier life would be if we could learn to do this! Of course, it might not be as much fun either, but it certainly would lessen the grief we go through.
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