Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for November 23, 2013
Transcript:
rj: You know how you just can't help some people? verne: Or trees rJ: they're too stubborn to see you're trying to do them a favor. verne: while doing yourself a favor. rj: right...it's like they refuse to help me help them help me. verne: no bad deed goes unpunished. rj: Exactly! When did that become a thing?
“Each one of us here today will, at one time in our lives, look upon a loved one in need and ask the same question: We are willing Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true that we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give, or more often than not, that part we have to give… is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us… But we can still love them… We can love—completely—even without complete understanding…”