Friday Food for Thought

I know you gotta feel just like I feel...

If I hear one more doggone thing about Tiger Woods and his woman, I'ma scream!

I myself am quite perplexed by it all... but not for the reasons you would think.

It is something that's a constant on the airwaves right now. Text messages, voicemail messages. Man... it's a bit daunting.

I usually have the television on while I'm doing other things -cleaning up, getting ready for work, the mundane activities of my life....

And I am bombarded with the ultimate details of someone else's life. Geez.

I really don't care who the man is screwing. Obviously his wife does. And rightfully so.

And it reminds me of a quote from my church notes some years ago. I posted it on the blog, but I can't track it down to get the exact phrasing. But it goes a little something like this:

"We are so intimately interested in the lives of stars and celebrities, know every little detail of what's going on in their lives, yet we have no real control or interest or even know what's going on with our own lives."

This is what this whole fiasco reminds me of. And it doesn't help that we are pounded day after day with this useless information.

It's something that will not increase my being or integrity or self esteem one iota.

I sit here and wonder, why a man, who happens to be a billionaire... who happens to be a black man (bump all this caublasian madness. You is BLACK, Tiger).

Not only a billionaire, but has the perfect blonde white wife.

White women are prized in our society. Above all else.

Got all this. The PERFECT life.

Why on earth would he do these things? What if one of these women had HIV or AIDS? What if one was a little "off" in the head, and busted out with some fatal attraction madness?

Maybe I'm the only one who thinks of all these things. Scary.

It all points back to one thing: the intangibles are more precious and important than the tangibles.

Things like integrity, honesty, faithfulness, unselfishness and the like are more important than all the money and status and appearances of perfection in the world.

And I thought of it as I read something in my devotional reading yesterday.

"The decline of commitment to excellence in these last days coupled with the increase of mediocrity that results from a lack of integrity adds up to an all-time low in the world's standard of values."

I remember as a child, I use to walk around with a long white towel on my head, pretending that it was long luxurious blonde hair, pretending that I was a perfect white woman. Wanting to be what I deemed perfect.

This reminds me that such perfection may not exist. And yeah I stop doing that mess many many years ago.

Tiger don't care about me. He don't pay my bills. He doesn't consider me of value.

Shoot, man... he don't even consider his perfect model wife of value.

But it reminds me to take stock of my own life.

And to thank God that my idiosyncracies and imperfection are not displayed for all the public to see and to discuss and to ponder.

And it reminds me to work on my own life...

Integrity.

Self-Esteem.

Self-Love.

Excellence.

Self-Respect.

And just plain ol' being honest with myself, where I'm at in life, and what I need to work on.

Tiger has enough money to throw at all the women involved to take care of his situation.

Unfortunately I don't. And I don't want it that way.

I am a work in progress. And I must do the WORK on myself in order to progress.

And all the money in the world can't pay for that process.

Hopefully Tiger will figure that out.

I already have... without the help of fame and fortune.

Ya'll have a great weekend.

And do that on purpose.