This is a continuation of Scottie’s request that I do a post on a thought a day.

This will be similar to yesterday’s thought about how we are being manipulated; conditioned to react on provided “facts” rather than thinking for ourselves and considering the reason and rationale behind what we see on the news and social media. I think on it as the old “slight of hand” trick used by magicians: watch this so you don’t see that.

We recently had the head of the NCAA testifying in front of Congress. Sure enough, the “Trans Issue” came up. Come to find out, there are over 510,000 athletes in the NCAA, and “less than 10” are trans. Think on that: that is approximately .00196% of a chance of even meeting, much less knowingly meeting, a trans athlete in the locker-room. I cannot imagine the chance of being assaulted by a trans athlete in the “wrong” locker-room, but it would be staggeringly thin. So, my question is more along the line of – why is there fear?

One of the things I learned from my own life, news and social media is that there are all too often people very ready to find fault, to belittle, to hope to destroy someone if for no other reason than to make themselves seem more palatable.

In truth, I’ve found those with the greatest hurts, the most obvious injury, the hardest struggle, to most often be the most honorable. They understand pain because they deal with it, they live with it, and in the struggle to overcome it they grow from it.

It is somehow the ones who hold a stiff veneer over a rotten core that strike out like a scared chihuahua trying to get the hurt in on others before their own vulnerabilities show.

I don’t have any answers to those who strive to be genuine in their lives and still take part in our world, except admiration. They have cleared hurdles in their life while others seem only willing to stand to the side and criticize. What I would answer is that I question the motives of those who seek to destroy another’s life.

-Randy