Holidays. I have a few questions on this subject... When did
it become okay for the general population to turn into psychos while driving,
shopping and generally being in public right before Christmas?
Has 'Tis the Season to Be Jolly become 'Tis the Season to Be Postal?
People will run you over in a store and the only thing you went out for
was milk, then look at you after the fact like you have issues...
what is that?
Has society become so obsessed with the commerciality of the Christmas Season
that we will almost kill someone to buy that perfect
item on the shelf?
Well, the answer to that would be yes, but the more important question is how
did it get this way?
Material possessions are nice, but we, in general, live in excess to a
degree the Romans would envy.
Thanks, but I can live without the flat screen TV or trying to buy the latest,
coolest thing on the market for my best friend - some people still
understand
the thought behind the action and appreciate the small gestures even more so
that the over-the-limit, preposterous ones.
I believe that we have gotten too greedy and, as history and time will tell,
the great civilizations that live in excess always seem to crash
horribly -
Ask the Romans...
Work. I've always heard the saying "Don't ever do anything
you love to do as a job because you will wind up hating it." I don't think
that's true. I love what I do for the sense of accomplishment I get out of it
and the sense of pride I feel when a project turns out to be perfect in my
eyes and my clients are happy with the end result.
I think that the people that give that little piece of advice let the drama of just being employed get to them and ruin their perspective on what
their
actual job really is: the thing they love to do.
Perspective. I've typed, said and written it more times than
I can remember and I'm going to do it again... Everything in this life is
how YOU perceive it to be; things aren't good or bad, it's how you look at
them.
Judging. People are capable of heinous acts towards others,
themselves and anything else, BUT, inside even the most sadistic person lies a
bit of good that can't surface for whatever reason. Someone somewhere loved
that serial killer they just executed, or the man that got too drunk and had
consensual sex with a 17 year old, or the girl who took that bottle of pills
to ease her pain, or the lady who has addictions that cause her to do things
that she is ashamed of...
Who can judge another person without having lived their life? Who can say who
is a "bad" person, not having ever sat down with them to
hear their side of
how they got to be where they are?
Don't judge a book by it's cover: Try this: don't judge anyone until you
examine yourself and realize that the same views you may have about others,
others may have about you.
Acceptance. Accept people for who and what they are - you are
not going to change them. Change comes from within. If there are things
about
a person that you can't deal with, maybe you should walk away because those
things that you find so disheartening or troublesome will always be there if
that person is comfortable with who he/she is.
Accept or don't, never attempt to change anyone but yourself. It's an exercise
in futility.
Thanks for reading... I hope it made sense.
