the mouth speaks." Matt. 12:34b
When Left is Right
March 13, 2008I carpool with a couple of friends from one side of the North Shore bridge to the other, and travelling has never been so exciting. I’m not sure whether the excitement comes from the topics we have or from the traffic jam that we may or may not encounter.
But during one of those exciting trips was one of the exciting topics which is "making a life or a living". Dudu, who comes from South Africa, looks forward to retiring and not having to come to work everyday. Probably enjoying life in his boat or travelling (if he must) in his Mercedes S edition. Sunil, who said he can be contented with just riding with Dudu in his beautiful car or in my X series BMW or a Grand Cherokee.
Our discussion drifted to the idea of working. Sunil said we should retire everyday, agreeing with me when I said that after 5:00pm I leave the office and forget about work. But Dudu defined the word further to distinguish chores at home as not work, and said that we should define our terms so we can all understand each other.
At that particular time, Dudu, who was driving asked which way to go, as he was not familiar with the route that Sunil chose.
"Turn right" said Sunil.
"I thought we should go left," Dudu said, to which Sunil answered, "That’s right." And Dudu turned left.
Really, in New Zealand when driving, one should keep left. Right is wrong. It is when you drive left that you are right, and when you drive right that you are wrong. To top it off, they call the cars right-hand drive.
Well, maybe when we get this right we will get our Mercedes and BMW.
