Doubting You

“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth,” writes Richard Whately.

Often times, I feel exactly this way as I sit down to write a message to you. It’s not that I doubt what I write; rather, it’s that I doubt you agree with what you read.

Time and again I’m inspired by something I read, saw or heard and I can’t wait to share my thoughts on the subject. But after sharing them with you, my words seem to fade into nothingness – forgotten, ignored or missed.

As one friend put it on Facebook, after I posted a You-Tube video of a young man being treated as a criminal during a sobriety check point stop: “What rights are being taken away from assholes who drive even slightly impaired. Shame on you, when so many people from our area are killed or impaired because of drunk/ impaired driving!”

She missed the point and felt obliged to respond: “The driver wasn’t asked if he had been drinking. So by not following what the intent is of a ‘sobriety check,’ the officer violated his own standard of action. Furthermore, the driver in this case was neither drunk driving or violating any laws.”

My question is this — if you’ve done nothing wrong, why are you allowing yourself to be treated as criminal? That’s why I doubt you.