Is bigger better?

Mother Teresa and Friends
(Public Domain)

While some are devoutly caring for the least among us, others are frantically creating the world’s largest pair of jeans.  Could it be that surpassing the previous Guinness World Record for “massive pants” is what life is all about?

Competition is fine when it spurs folks on toward lofty goals.  Yet when more than 30 textile workers find nothing better to do than to adorn “a waist circumference of 190 feet, 10 inches” with a “3-foot, 94-inch stainless steel button,” then they might just have too much time on their hands.

Perhaps the “18,044 feet of denim fabric” could have been used to clothe those in proverbial rags.  Perhaps the 18 days that each worker spent could have been used to tend the sick. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said, “Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.“

Resources

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/10/16/Guinness-World-Records-largest-jeans/5731729100424/