Road to Hell Paving Company

Subtitle: The Worst Best Intentions

This is a re-think it idea for the word and concept "intentions." The phrases about intentions should be a dead give away. People are always saying that they're doing things with the very best intentions and then other people are all like "but the road to hell is paved with good intentions" and then I'm like "take your good intentions to hell with you in a that artfully crafted hand basket you're always carrying...dick."

Suffice it to say, good intentions really aren't. Good. I suggest that this means that we should rethink what we say and when we use the word intentions. If you begin with good intentions and then abandon them wholesale or temporarily forget about them so that you can do something dirty and wrong you really aren't fully embracing the potential of that word.

Maybe you should say instead, "At one point in the distant past I must certainly have had good intentions." Because seriously, it your intent was actually good, then it should never have drifted off into the bad if you were holding onto it. If that is the case, then they weren't really good intentions were they? Perhaps they seemed like good intentions. Maybe they looked and smelled and quacked like them. But if they were the very thing that led you astray? They most certainly weren't a duck...I mean...good, now were they?

Point being, that intent shouldn't slip away. It should instead be the driving force of whatever doing. It is like the road map to whatever you'd like to achieve. And as far as I can tell not map to hell ever started with a really good intention.