We all have one.  Some of our giggling pins are rusted and hard to find or they are buried somewhere and we forgot where they may be.

We all need to find our giggling pin and keep it nearby.

For this world is in need of a little laughter and bright cheerful smiles.

When my children were young I found their little giggling pins and they howled with glee.

Never be too old to know the giggling pin will always be.

…..is an expression for having to suffer consequences for actions.

I have paid the piper on a few occasions and at times the payment seems cruel and unusual as compared to the transgression that caused the payment to be made to begin with, but the transgression is made and the penalty is extracted.  It is too late to do anything about that now.

When I see others going through the same ordeal of paying the piper, I sympathize and my nature being as it is, would prevent it if possible.  Yet I realize that it is meant to be and there is nothing one can do to prevent the inevitable.

Being aware of this, the only thing I can do is warn the people who are about to commit a transgression from doing so, thereby the piper won’t be coming around to collect.

Whether they heed my words or not, is up to them.  The piper will or will not come depending on what they choose to do.

I understand it well for I have had to answer that question by deed more than once in my life.

This is a question facing many of us lately and one many had not thought they would have to face in their lifetime.

For example, mortgages.  Do you keep on paying and struggling to find enough money to eat when your home is worth less than seventy five percent of what you own on it.

It is not your “fault” and it isn’t the “lenders’ fault” either.  You don’t want to walk away, you just need a little slack to help carry you through.  You call for help as you feel you are drowning.

Then the dance begins except only one partner is willing, the other not.

The other partner is not human, a corporation, even though the supreme court thinks it is human.

You read about corporations and banks walking away from creditors and investors, organizing pre-packaged bankruptcies, receiving government bailouts, changing accounting rules and not feeling guilty for any of this, but they will not hesitate to levy a different moral standard on you, the person who owes them.

The government encourages this behavior as they decided to help the corporation out with money that does not belong to them, I consider that theft.

Now, which side is moral?