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Can the good people, who do the right thing start winning?

In this edition of Everything King, Wendy laments the lying, and the spin and the mean spiritedness of people these days
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I have found myself saying these words too often lately. 

"I just don't belong on this planet"

Since I don't know Richard Branson or Elon Musk (up until a month ago I thought he was a men's cologne) — here I am stuck on this one.

I don't know if it's the time change but that one hour change kicked my butt.

Maybe its the endless winter waiting for this glorious first day of spring.

I just find myself weary. I don't mean just tired. I mean bone tired. A little hopeless,even.

Sorry to be a Debbie Downer but:

I am tired of the mean spirit of so many.

I am tired of all the lying.

Tired of people who refuse to accept responsibility and those who let them off the hook.

I am disgusted that facts don't matter.

I am tired of the spin doctors trying to convince us that what is up is down and right is left.

I am tired of nothing being out of bounds anymore where anything goes and that we have to accept everything as acceptable.

Admittedly, I watch too much CNN and American news. 

I don't even know Andrew McCabe but I felt horrible that he was fired hours before his FBI pension was about to kick in. There's a 20-plus career down the tubes.

I was angry when U.S. President Donald Trump boasted about lying to our Prime Minister over trade. In no way should that be okay.

I am ticked that the rich bullies are trying to silence Stormy Daniels about her alleged fling with the President. I am sickened that it seems now that character doesn't matter — only power and money matter. Perhaps, it has always been so and I just didn't see it in such a glaring light.

I am equally despondent about spineless jellyfish who go with the masses rather than standing up for a principle.

So naïve, I know, but I thought good people doing the right thing would always rise to the top. 

Sure doesn't seem that way these days.

It is so hard to keep the negative forces of life from seeping in.

There's a Toby Keith song I have always loved that says:

There ain't no right way to do the wrong thing

You can justify but its still black and white

Paint it any shade but it won't change

There ain't no right way to do the wrong thing

I think you have to stand up for your own beliefs even if you are standing there alone. Hold tight to them. Lift not lower your standards. It is really the only way.

Deeper down than the sadness I know there are still great people doing selfless work who do care about others — the givers never talk as loud as the takers, it seems.

I guess I'll just have to listen for the whispers!


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Wendy King writes about all kinds of things from nutrition to the job search from cats to clowns — anything and everything — from the ridiculous to the sublime. Watch for Wendy's column weekly.
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