Too much of a good thing

Things that are good in moderation:

• Sunshine
• Salt
• Water
• Sugar
• Electricity
• Dumb Jokes
• Heat

In and of themselves, the above items are all good and needful things. We need sunshine to survive and grow our food. We need salt to process amino acids and make Mac-n-Cheese edible. We need water to not die and to fill our pools. Sugar makes our cookies taste like cookies and gives Kool-Aid a reason to exist. Electricity turns on the lights and all battery operated toys. Dumb jokes make us laugh and entertain small children. We need heat to be warm and roast our marshmallows.

Too much sun and we burn our skin to the point of swelling and blistering. Too much salt and it makes water unusable and our mac-n-cheese yucky. Water can drown our campfires and take our breath away. Sugar overflows turn something yummy into an aching tummy. Electricity can shock the life out of you and create huge power bills. Too many dumb jokes and they pass the point of joke and make you wish the teller would just go away. Heat can burn books at 451 and take your house with it.

I once had a cactus that I loved so much, I watered it everyday. It collapsed in on itself, rotten and stinky.

Moral of the story: Too much can ruin you, just as easily as not enough.