My India fam is visiting with friends until Friday morning. Another friend may come to us from Friday to Sunday when they leave. Yesterday's lunch choice was IHOP ( a solid choice) but I slipped up and got into a debate about politics (bad choice).
I wonder if this is why I live so far away? I don't know that I could take people I love so much saying, "But if you give the poor things for free they'll become lazy and won't work." When I heard that, I went hot and my voice got very quavery. I know how precarious the day-to-day is for so many people and how hard they work at all sorts of things.
And then I heard it, the constant admonition from my childhood: "Don't be so idealistic."
But why the heck not?