tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012423.post-1141185057145192222006-02-28T19:27:00.000-08:002006-02-28T19:50:57.233-08:00I work in accounting, a field not known for simpletons, the illiterate, or the merely below average. My wife is a teacher and routinely deals with all three.<br /><br />Recently I was working with someone who just wasn't getting it. Someone who is unlikely to ever "get" it. And I got a hit on something.<br /><br />Life is such a crap shoot. The meeting of the gamete with the right zygote, carrying all the right genes, and successfully bringing it to term, and then raising them into a whole individual is a crap shoot. The scariest thing I have ever done is to have three children, and I realized it three time only minutes after each of their births.<br /><br />Part of the human genome is to shun the unfortunate. Too much danger of continuing bad genes. This ugly trait is entirely too visible on any playground, and not visible enough in any adult group with more than three people. Especially at work.<br /><br />It is incumbent on us, the winners life's crap shoot, to take care of those of us that lost out. Even if only in small ways. <br /><br />Most importantly in small ways.Dennis Clayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11433135580608693994noreply@blogger.com