Human Hoof in Mouth disease?... I don't think so!
Hmmm. I've had a really bad week in some respects. It appears that over the past two weeks, I've said things to people that it appears they didn't really want to hear. Okay, yeah, it's not unusual for this to happen to me and I must say that I must come from a different time and that I haven't learned to play like all the other "kids" in the sandbox. If the lesson is that I can't speak my mind, then I'm not really sure that I'm willing to learn that one.
What happened to the times in which we were allowed to say what we felt? When did life become about muzzling our thoughts for the greater good? Did I miss that change? And if so, where the hell was I?
The politically-correct climate of today is a real challenge for me. I usually don't get much out of those times where everything is just peachy keen. I much more prefer to learn from the things in my life that are much more negative. That means even by those things that people are afraid to say like "You really shouldn't let it go so long before you retouch your hair colour because it looks terrible" (thanks, E, I'm happy to say that you'd be proud) or "Do you really need to eat that?". If people didn't say things like this to me, I would just go on blissfully thinking that life was going well and not realize that there are things that I should probably consider and learn from.
When someone asks "How are you?", I tell them how I really feel. Perhaps this is wrong of me because it's become pretty evident that people really want to hear you say "Fine". They don't want to hear about your problems or your joys... or perhaps it's just that they don't really care in the first place. I know that there are times that I don't, but when that happens, I don't ask them.
What has happened to our sense of community and caring in this world? Have we just become so busy and caught up with ourselves that we don't want to take the time? What is it? I'd really like to know. And, why isn't anyone doing anything about it? Humanity is interconnected and nowadays - more than ever - people need a sense of connection. And, just for the record, I'm not talking about false connections formed on that stupid social networking site either... I'm talking about face-to-face, able to touch each other sense of connection!
That's my belief. I'm not going to stop being the woman that I am. In fact, I'm going to continue to be inspired by people like the one I previously posted about and call it like I see it.
If the world has become a place where we all just bump into each other without forming deep connections and must refrain from saying what we really want to say - even those things that aren't sugar-coated - then I'm not all that thrilled about living in a world like that. I might as well just move into a cabin in the woods and live alone until my demise!
If we can't say what we think, then there's really not much of a point for even keeping up this blog...
Hmmm. I've had a really bad week in some respects. It appears that over the past two weeks, I've said things to people that it appears they didn't really want to hear. Okay, yeah, it's not unusual for this to happen to me and I must say that I must come from a different time and that I haven't learned to play like all the other "kids" in the sandbox. If the lesson is that I can't speak my mind, then I'm not really sure that I'm willing to learn that one.
What happened to the times in which we were allowed to say what we felt? When did life become about muzzling our thoughts for the greater good? Did I miss that change? And if so, where the hell was I?
The politically-correct climate of today is a real challenge for me. I usually don't get much out of those times where everything is just peachy keen. I much more prefer to learn from the things in my life that are much more negative. That means even by those things that people are afraid to say like "You really shouldn't let it go so long before you retouch your hair colour because it looks terrible" (thanks, E, I'm happy to say that you'd be proud) or "Do you really need to eat that?". If people didn't say things like this to me, I would just go on blissfully thinking that life was going well and not realize that there are things that I should probably consider and learn from.
When someone asks "How are you?", I tell them how I really feel. Perhaps this is wrong of me because it's become pretty evident that people really want to hear you say "Fine". They don't want to hear about your problems or your joys... or perhaps it's just that they don't really care in the first place. I know that there are times that I don't, but when that happens, I don't ask them.
What has happened to our sense of community and caring in this world? Have we just become so busy and caught up with ourselves that we don't want to take the time? What is it? I'd really like to know. And, why isn't anyone doing anything about it? Humanity is interconnected and nowadays - more than ever - people need a sense of connection. And, just for the record, I'm not talking about false connections formed on that stupid social networking site either... I'm talking about face-to-face, able to touch each other sense of connection!
That's my belief. I'm not going to stop being the woman that I am. In fact, I'm going to continue to be inspired by people like the one I previously posted about and call it like I see it.
If the world has become a place where we all just bump into each other without forming deep connections and must refrain from saying what we really want to say - even those things that aren't sugar-coated - then I'm not all that thrilled about living in a world like that. I might as well just move into a cabin in the woods and live alone until my demise!
If we can't say what we think, then there's really not much of a point for even keeping up this blog...
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