"Don't get it right, just get it written"*

I recently watched Gran Torino and was moved to write /blog/rant about the following.


What is right? Is it something you feel? Like pleasure or satisfaction. Is it something that is hard, something that must be sacrificed? Or is it easy, innate, naturally occurring within some minds, some souls? We talk about doing the right thing. The right way. Being right. And having the right stuff. In America we have an entire political party that is referred to as “the Right”, but are they? We make quips about those who aren’t right are those who are left. And that is true, if you consider how we presently misuse the term. Right is simply a direction, and is different, depending on your point of view. Sometimes, all it takes to decide what isn’t right, is to look in the mirror. And sometimes, what’s left – in that same mirror – can also seem right.

ltv


*"Don't get it right, just get it written" - James Thurber