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"Good, Better, Best"
Jake Kincaid
We learned them in school as degrees of something desirable: good, better, best. But good, better, best are more than language used for comparison. Good, better, best are realities of everyday life.
Life confronts us often with choices not just between good and evil, but choices among degrees of goodness. While we should never despise or undervalue anything good, we should recognize that some things are better than others and always aspire for the best of things.
Indeed, without high standards little good is achievable. As the poet Browning put it:
A man's reach should exceed his grasp.
Often it is the quest for the best that results in what is good, even what is better.
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