Grits and Gravy!

This morning I had savory grits with lots of butter and cracked pepper.  Yum!   We have talked grits before; but what can I say~  I'm a true Southerner and I love my grits!   On rare occasions I am lucky enough to get my grits with gravy.   Gawd what a posh breakfast.   To me gravy is like icing.   Cake is sweet and good all by itself but it sure tastes a helluva lot better when icing is added.   The same with biscuits or grits.......they are both good and buttery but when you get to top it off with gravy....wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll it is so good words escape me.  When it comes to dealing with people in real life I am more apt to chose grits over gravy any day.   Coming from the south I do know how to pour on the gravy myself; however I tend to like those who are straight shooters.   Every once in a while you need someone to sugar coat the truth; but over all the nitty girtty is the better form.

An acquaintance of mine caught me in a conversation recently and secretly I was just rolling my eyes.   The conversation may have covered different ground but down deep it boiled down to the same thing:  self.  This person puts a lot of gravy on everything.   This person is not "bad," but ironically as loudly as this person touts being self aware and honest with themselves the grit of the matter is this  person is just selfish.  Every subject tracks back to this person.   If by chance I was actually able to start a conversation about anything inevitably the subject will somehow get twisted back to this person.   This person's gravy bowl definitely floweth over.

People like politicians rely on their gravy (a.k.a. spin) to dance around a subject, cover up a scandal, and even boost their ratings.  Ordinary Joe's like their gravy as well.   I admit it is much easier to like what you hear when people tell you what you like to hear; but this does not necessarily get you anywhere near any sort of truth.   Much like a biscuit sopping up gravy I think Washington D.C. and society in general like their truth and fragile egos saturated in gravy and sugar coat that if you can please!   Believe me, I love my grits and gravy but I know my waist line can't have gravy all the time!