The other day I found myself in a public restroom with a woman and her two young daughters. I was washing my hands when the mother came out of a stall with the girls and told them to wash their hands. The first one obediently went to the sink and proceeded to turn on the water while the other one threw a fit on the floor, saying she didn't want to wash hers. The mother insisted, then finally picked up the girl, swung her around to the sink and held her under her arm to wash her hands. In the process, the obedient little girl got smacked in the head by her sister's swinging feet. Her lip quivered, but she finished washing and drying her hands while her mother washed her screaming sister's hands.
I've thought about that a lot the past few days. Isn't that just the way life goes? We go about our days obediently trying to do what's right, and all the attention and focus goes to the squeaky wheel. The one that complains and cries and fights gets all the attention, while the ones who are trying to comply get ignored. Then.... we get kicked in the head. The bad decisions of some cause pain and suffering to others. Does that mean we should just forget it? Give up? Absolutely not. We must still power through, make the right decisions, try our best. The good we are doing WILL catch up to us in our lives, and we must remember that doing the right thing (even when no one notices) is STILL the right thing.
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