E-Dribble

Many arguments have been started with a statement of this sort, but I’m cemented in my beliefs.  Angels exist.  I have one that follows me throughout my life.  Always at the ready, he sees everything that happens to me in the course of a day, and if necessary, he intervenes.

His job? To screw with me, of course.

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Take spam, for instance.

The new thing?  Sending you an email with no body to it, just an .mp3 file with an innocuous name, like “allforone.mp3″.  That’s all you get.  You have to listen to the mp3 file to realize that it’s actually a voice telling you about a can’t-lose stock.  Then, you have to continue listening to retrieve all of the pertinent information, so you can purchase the company’s stock.  After that has happened on a large scale, the entity that sent these emails sells their stock in this company at it’s new inflated value and leaves you holding the bag.

You know what?  If you opened that email, listened to that mp3 and then bought that stock, you deserve to be holding the bag.

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I remember as a child hearing during church sermons that God will never burden you with more than you can handle. It seems comforting, doesn’t it? I mean, hey, if things get too bad, God will lighten the load. Right? Before we answer, we need to address something first.

The mind is incredible. History has proven that people are an incredibly adaptable species, overcoming great obstacles and tragedies only to triumph in spite of things that were previously thought to be insurmountable.

So, what’s the problem? My point here is only this: We are all capable of handling horrific things our minds can not fathom, and if you can handle a lot, then the above statement is not nearly as comforting as it was when I was eight years old.

The latest item added to my list of things that I can handle, but wished I couldn’t:

Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida

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