Fly in the Oitment

As we were going through an Upfront magazine in History class, she told us to flip through the pages. There is an article called "The Fly in the Ointment" and it reminded me of class so of course I asked Mrs. Kutliroff to give me permission to keep it so I could read it later and use it to write my blog! To my disadvantage, the article was actually about idioms and had nothing to actually do with the fly in the ointment. But, I decided to write something about this subject anyways.

I've noticed many times in our lives we experience the "fly in the ointment." We see something bad and it ruins everything else around it. I've found myself getting upset over such small things, and then finding them spoil my whole night. I could be having a good time, and all of a sudden someone says or does something that makes me upset, and right away the whole night is spoiled. 

This week we found a whole new side of the Chacham. He went from a realist to a self conceded perfectionist. He attacked the Nehene with so many metaphors, one being that he was the fly in the ointment. 

He says that the Nehene walks in and is loud and everyone listens to him and the wise person tries to make some sense, but no one listens to him. He says that even though the Nehene is an idiot, people still listen to him because he is loud. That Nehene is the small piece of imperfection that is so loud, and it destroys everything.