For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 17, 2019

that’s a head-scratcher there, Brian

Question: What kind of kid asks a question by first stating “Question”?

Guys, your life is perfect, you just don’t see it.

If everything was perfect it would also be boring.

You know, that’s a price I’d be perfectly willing to pay for a perfect existence. :)

California comes very close but bring $$$$$$$

Perfect might not necessarily be a word then. Why would you need the word perfect?

Florida is perfect to us. And we’ve lived in enough places to know.

Perfection is found only in Heaven. Here on Earth, we need to make do.

If you have everything you have ever wanted, what do you have to look forward to?

But my perfect and your perfect may be totally different. Nothing is perfect, just levels of good and bad.

That is an excellent question!

I love Lawrence, always bringing in some wisdom and philosophy to kids growing up.

Canada?

There was a Twilight Zone episode like that only it wasn’t Heaven but the other place.

Kind of along the same line as, " the world would be boring if people were all the same." Well, how would we know it?

Ah perfect!

Very evolved!

BOOM!

You can have a perfect day from time to time, and those are glorious!

No problem. Just marry the perfect mate and their Mother will slowly, but surely, tell you all your imperfections.

I have found that the flow of ones life can BE perfect one minute, and then the next it isn’t. Then it is…then it isn’t. You have to learn to roll with the punches

Utopian can’t happen under the present circumstances. Been that was since Adam and Eve were around.

For something to exist, its opposite is necessary. How would you know about White if there was no Black?

I don’t need perfect, but it would be nice if life stopped going out of its way to make things difficult.

It reminds me when my kids were that age, they did start to have similar conversations with their friends when they visited and they took a break in the kitchen for a snack… Sometimes I was in the living room, or the sewing room and heard their musings. Boys’ voices carry more than girls’ voices. In the summer my kids played outside, and the sliding door was open, with the next door kids and five or six or more kids would join them and they would naturally separate into age groups and the older ones’ play often veered into imaginary perfect worlds, while the younger ones were still in the sandbox stage.

Lucy and her 5 cent advice…“Life is like a game. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.” Charlie Brown replies, “I’d be happy if I just made the playoffs.”

‘The perfect is the enemy of the good,’ chaps!

Lynn’s Comments:

Any time I’ve done a cartoon workshop, I tell my students to not try to be perfect; that there’s no such thing as perfect. But, if you do the best you can possibly do, the results are always very, very good. No matter what my job has been, that advice has always worked for me!

Humans don’t know what they mean by “perfect” just an imaginary idea from imperfect minds.

There is a place with plenty of money: Venezuela. One US dollar is equal to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan bolivars. Only trouble is, food, healthcare and toilet paper are incredibly scarce in Venezuela, with people waiting in long lines, often to be only told the essential commodities are all sold out. Not sure what “perfect” is, but it does not sound like that place!

That question makes sense. These boys are into adulthood. Welcome there!