I’ve read about it; I’ve seen it in movies; I’ve seen it demonstrated in a classroom – now there’s an iffy use for tax/tuition money. The idea is to list the pros of a decision or action on in one column and the cons in another. The reason for it is obvious; it’s commonsense. I suppose a lot of people don’t do it because they don’t want to see written out in front of their face the truth of the matter. They have this really stupid urge to jump into the fire our of their warm frying pan and they don’t want to have another hurdle between them and doing what they want to do.

However, this afternoon, I sat down and made two columns in my mind: people who are in my life and people who are gone. Now that’s a heck of a thing to have staring you in the face.