Sometimes I neglect the good because it’s not great. Like – I buy plain yogurt instead of fruit-flavored because the kind with fruit has a lot of sugar. But then I end up eating something else entirely, something even less healthy, because sometimes plain yogurt isn’t going to cut it. As I was eating Oatmeal Surprise yesterday, I felt bad about the jam – and then I thought – it’s oatmeal! For dinner! How much more healthy can you get? I suppose slightly – because you could leave out the jam. You see where this is going…
I had a nagging thought that someone said it better than me. Turns out it is Voltaire. The English translation is “the best is the enemy of the good” or less accurately, but as I remember it, “the perfect is the enemy of the good”.
