I was listening to Tony Bennett last night. Standards have been on my mind lately. Are high standards ever too high? I'm sure in some cases they are, but isn't it more often that high standards are considered too high because someone doesn't want to change to meet the standards? People can find exceptions to the standard. "This person is good at X, so we should let them do X regardless of their behavior."
"They are just kids and kids make mistakes. Give them another chance. Remember what you did as a kid?"
"I don't like that person, so I just made up some stories about them to get them fired."
When do we reach the point that there are no standards? Who loses with no standards? Doesn't everyone? Shouldn't we remember to remove the log from our eye, before we complain about the speck in our neighbor's?
Or as Tony would sing, "Wake up, and kiss the Good Life goodbye."
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