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I need some.
Really.
Not kidding.
I mean it.
The rest here is just a rant and a ramble. Make of it what you will.
I’m not talking about malevolent ignorance or stupidity, like those who might be in some sort of political or municipal authority, or those who would otherwise seek to do you harm. I’m talking about friends, neighbors, and family. People you otherwise care about. ...or at least try to, or pretend to, maybe even because we’re just expected to.
I know a lot of us here pride ourselves on “saying it like it is”, “not taking any BS”, “setting folks straight who desperately need it”. Sometimes that’s all I do here. Read, read, read, read, post a “like” here and there, read some more, post an emoji here and there, until somebody says something I perceive as “Stupid”. Then I post. Talk about winning friends and influencing people. Yea, I don’t think I am.
Will Rogers once said, "The American people are a very generous people, and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity."
To my own discredit, I tend to treat these words as "words to live be”. While they might be accurate, they probably shouldn’t be a goal.
The older we get, I think many of us, certainly I, tend to lose our “filters", and say exactly what’s on our mind. Like it’s a badge of honor.
My old mother-in-law died in a nursing home with dementia, after having herself worked there for many years, and watching her own mother die in the same nursing home of dementia. My MIL was a wonderful woman, loved and cared for her family fearlessly, especially her grandkids, two of which are my offspring, but she spoke in a very straightforward manner. She grew up poor on a farm in the depression, and once said to me when discussing this topic, “Old people are mean”. This was primarily based on her experiences in the nursing home before she was a resident herself. As an aside, and it’s own rabbit hole, I think with social media now everybody is mean, because they can be, with impunity. For now anyway.
Aesop once wrote,
“ The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun said: “I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger. You begin.” So the Sun retired behind a cloud, and the Wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveller. But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveller wrap his cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give up in despair. Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveller, who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on."
"Kindness effects more than severity."
This won’t solve the world's problems. But it might protect important relationships close to you.
I hope it will, anyway.
I need to work on it for sure.
Really.
Not kidding.
I mean it.
The rest here is just a rant and a ramble. Make of it what you will.
I’m not talking about malevolent ignorance or stupidity, like those who might be in some sort of political or municipal authority, or those who would otherwise seek to do you harm. I’m talking about friends, neighbors, and family. People you otherwise care about. ...or at least try to, or pretend to, maybe even because we’re just expected to.
I know a lot of us here pride ourselves on “saying it like it is”, “not taking any BS”, “setting folks straight who desperately need it”. Sometimes that’s all I do here. Read, read, read, read, post a “like” here and there, read some more, post an emoji here and there, until somebody says something I perceive as “Stupid”. Then I post. Talk about winning friends and influencing people. Yea, I don’t think I am.
Will Rogers once said, "The American people are a very generous people, and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity."
To my own discredit, I tend to treat these words as "words to live be”. While they might be accurate, they probably shouldn’t be a goal.
The older we get, I think many of us, certainly I, tend to lose our “filters", and say exactly what’s on our mind. Like it’s a badge of honor.
My old mother-in-law died in a nursing home with dementia, after having herself worked there for many years, and watching her own mother die in the same nursing home of dementia. My MIL was a wonderful woman, loved and cared for her family fearlessly, especially her grandkids, two of which are my offspring, but she spoke in a very straightforward manner. She grew up poor on a farm in the depression, and once said to me when discussing this topic, “Old people are mean”. This was primarily based on her experiences in the nursing home before she was a resident herself. As an aside, and it’s own rabbit hole, I think with social media now everybody is mean, because they can be, with impunity. For now anyway.
Aesop once wrote,
“ The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun said: “I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger. You begin.” So the Sun retired behind a cloud, and the Wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveller. But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveller wrap his cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give up in despair. Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveller, who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on."
"Kindness effects more than severity."
This won’t solve the world's problems. But it might protect important relationships close to you.
I hope it will, anyway.
I need to work on it for sure.
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