In life there are many paths. Some lead to life, others to death. Choose wisely.
-Picture by Lisa R (owner)-

I have recently learned that I have a problem with a very popular phrase. What is the phrase? “The customer is always right.” Today I discovered that I really dislike this sentence. Why? Well…what if the customer is wrong? I have a point, I promise this is not some random rant (or me standing on a soap box, playing a violin). The issue I take with letting someone think they are right, when they are wrong is that we are enabling a behavior and this behavior will spill over into every other part of that person’s life. You don’t believe me? Turn on the news. Read a newspaper. When wrong becomes right, laws and rules are thrown out the window. A lack of respect for law and justice, leads to a society of people that will do what’s right in their own eyes. Even if what they believe to be right is clearly wrong. Today, as that phrase was tossed out as a solution to a problem, I wondered how different the crime rate would be if someone had taken the time to say, “Hey I understand how you feel, but this behavior is wrong.” I wonder where we would be as a people if our first thought was to stand up for what is right and decent. I wonder where I would be as a person if I opted to throw compromise out the window.  It will always be easier to compromise. However, at the end of the day whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, RIGHT and WRONG are not interchangeable.  At some point everyone will have to choose a side.

So what am I thankful for today? That I am learning to choose what is right.