Complicated

Sue Wilson and I were on the air the other day on the WQMX morning show, going off on the recent surge in gas prices. Up like 31 cents basically overnight. So that day I went home looking for answers. The prevailing lame response that I heard time and time again all day on TV was - "Well, it's complicated." Blah, blah blah!

Yea OK I hear you, gas prices are complicated I get it. But if you think about it, this is the cop-out catch phrase of the day. When the experts we turn to for answers to important questions are backed up into the corner without any real substantive response, they yank out the "complicated defense." Question is....are these kid of problems really complicated?

I have a real sense that gas prices are not really all that complicated. Or a bevy of other daily subjects that routinely impact our lives from the outside are shoved off into the "complicatedland abyss." It just sounds a whole lot better than, "We have no real answer, we just know that you don't deserve a straight answer." So it becomes, "complicated."

I'll tell you what's complicated. Most Americans work schedules, the kids sports calender, being a teenager, sending kids to college and paying for it, saving for retirement, or figuring out a medical bill. The Rubik's Cube, learning to use your new Blackberry, and trying to get a real person on the customer service hot line when you have a problem. Now those are really complicated!

The truth is, life in our world today, is complicated. The things that matter have slowly become such, and that's a shame. We're all busy with our lives and families, deadlines, peer pressures, and trying to keep it all going forward. Work, taxes, ever changing rules and regulations in our public lives make it such. And it bleeds over.

Relationships with our families, both immediate and extended, siblings, aging parents, and the growing children we're raising. And, be honest have you ever seen a romantic relationship that gets less complicated as time goes on? Yea, me either. These are the things are truly complicated, and real. And many times, are worth the time and effort required to untangle the crissed-crossed web that has been spun by life in general.

Gas prices and the like - complicated?

I'm thinking not.