Goodness from others is like a delicious, nutritious meal. It is easy to digest, and its benefits continue hours, days, weeks, ― years after the meal is completed. It makes us feel better and healthier. It improves our thinking and concentration. It gives us more energy. And when we look in the mirror, we begin to notice the smoothness of our skin tones and the disappearances of wrinkles. Goodness from others brings an overall feeling of well-being and a thorough sensation of contentment.
Wickedness from others is like an over cooked, too greasy, high calorie, non-nutritious potluck. It is very difficult to ingest. Its unbearable taste lingers in your throat hours, days, weeks and years to come; just the mare thought of this regurgitated repast is enough to make its bad taste flood our memories and our bodies, which physically do not feel better, look better, or function better. Wickedness from others brings an overall feeling of poor health and a complete mood of discontentment.
Excellent leadership brings us goodness ― a delicious, nutritious, happy meal. Poor leadership brings us wickedness ― bad tasting, arteries clogging, future heart attack potluck.
Excellent leadership is easy to digest even when it contains ingredients we do not particularly like, but has nutritional benefits we understand.
Poor leadership is always hard to swallow, especially when we do not know all the ingredients it contains, and the ones we know about, we’re certain, are unhealthy and harmful.
The way we feel at the end of a meal, and as the result of the meal, is the true measure of the quality of the meal. Which one do you think Governor Scott Walker and the republicans served the people of Wisconsin yesterday ― an entrée that was easy to digest or an entrée that was difficult to swallow?
