Both Sides Now

 

Ten Thousand Voices

Ten thousand kisses
Ten thousand tears
Ten thousand wishes
Ten thousand years

Ten thousand years sounds like a long time.

In Europe, they  think that 100 miles is a long distance and 100 years is a short time.  In the US, we think that  100 miles is a short distance and 100 years is a long time.  But Europeans are also very intolerant of people not in their group, the Irish and the British for example, or the Poles and the Russians.   I am the grandchild of immigrants from Europe.  They left Europe to get away from intolerance.  So pick your poison, the group that lives a long time but thinks people from far away are bad, or the individual who lives a very short time and thinks people from far away are not so bad.  

 IMHO the problem today is that people like MTG, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, etc., think only about the short term AND that people from far away are bad.  The worst of both worlds. I would prefer to think about the long term AND that people from far away are good.