Mrs. Frederick said the greatest happiness was to spend your life in loving service for others, and Cousin Stickles and Aunt Isabel agreed with her—Aunt Isabel with a resentful air, as if she thought Mrs. Frederick had taken the wind out of her sails by saying it first. “We are all too prone,” continued Mrs. Frederick, determined not to lose so good an opportunity, “to live in selfishness, worldliness and sin.” The other women all felt rebuked for their low ideals, and Uncle James had a conviction that the conversation had been uplifted with a vengeance.
OK SO this is every fucking church youth group ice-breaker I’ve ever been part of. “What’s your favorite book?” Or “what one thing would you take to a desert island?” Or “what is your favorite thing to do?” And it’s all fun & games until someone says “the Bible” or “reading the Bible” and then every single other person after ALSO has to say the Bible and the ppl who went before interject uncomfortably that they are all going to bring the Bible too and they’d like a do-over because they didn’t realize the Bible was an option. Then there’s a whole judgmental moment from the later group like
I recently watched a recorded staff meeting I’d missed and even in a completely non-church setting the last 5 women to answer the ice breaker said they were bringing their Bible to a desert island if they can only take one item. And then, predictably, two women who went earlier said they wanted a do-over and they were also bringing their Bibles.
Not to be like a violent persecutor of the faith or anything but fyi answering like that sucks ass and you’re ruining everything for everyone.
“The greatest happiness,” said Valancy suddenly and distinctly, “is to sneeze when you want to.”
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