Dr. Joy Browne's Blog

So my accountant forgot to file for some of the donations I gave to charity this past holiday season and there is not much I can say but that "no good deed goes unpunished"
It's just one of those sort of "givens" in life (pun intended) that all of us "do-gooders" don't always reap the rewards for our deeds.  But this is not all bad luck and the world rearing it's ugly head at us.  Most of the time this sort of thing happens because good people believe that they are always on the side of the angels because of their "do-gooding", so therefore they don't have to be prepared or organized or have follow through.  We believe that because we are doing something nice, everything will simply fall in to place, and we don't have to worry about how we go about things.  For example, I went to a benefit the other night, and the chairman of the organization (whom I'm sure is a very nice and well-intentioned man) thought he could totally just wing his speech.  He was totally unprepared and looked like a blubbering fool.  Now  I'm sure he was thinking to himself "well, here we are at this beautiful benefit for charity, and that all just speaks for itself".  Well, no sir, it didn't.  No matter how nice you are, and how well you mean, you've gotta work just as hard as the rest of the world.   Even Mother Theresa had to dot her i's and cross her t's.