I just had a little tiny insight that I needed to jot down. Especially for us mid-westerners who take out our accomplished people just when they've had a taste for the top, because we all think they are too big for their britches and someone needs to take them down a notch. (Senator Daschle) I mean the only time I've seen a Rolls Royce around here is when some guy was driving around a fixer upper. So one of two things happened. He never got around to fixing it up just like everyone figured he wouldn't, so he didn't amount to much. Or, he did get it all fixed up and then it wasn't socially acceptable to drive around in it because it meant that he was squashing all the little people around him on his way to the top.
Renting limos around here is acceptable. But no one owns any! Except for the people who are in the business of renting limos.
I had just admitted in another post that I sure do enjoy talking about what I have accomplished over what is going wrong in my life right now. I just came right out and admitted it, unabashedly and without fear. Because the focus is on the positive and not the negative. I finished the post. Edited the post and I published it. I re-read it. (That is usually when I find all my punctuation mistakes, even though I'm no expert on punctuation.) Then I found it. Isn't that a little bit on the bragging side?
To talk about all the good and what is going right in life, is it all to make the other person green with jealousy and to earn a tight lipped, "well, that is good for you." from them? Really? Is that what its for? So if we complain about all the complainers what do we want them to do? If you can't brag and you can't complain, what is left to talk about?
So I think I'm going to keep an eye out for this. If I can remember. I wonder if I can do it if now that I'm aware. The next time I catch myself complaining during idle chit chat, with nothing good to complain about. Is it because I'm trying to shy away from bragging? Am I complaining because I've been thought to not toot ones own horn? Am I complaining because I don't want to step on my friends and treat them like the little people of the world? Am I complaining because I fear their jealousy is as strong as my own, if not stronger?
There is a bible verse somewhere in the new testament that if you find a lost coin you are supposed to call your friends and neighbors to help celebrate. Can you imagine being the person to make this call? Can you imagine being the person to receive this call? I know we would all like to see ourselves in the positive, but really, but seriously, when you think of other conversations and how you would have like them to have gone and how they have ended up. I'm sure we have had real life applications with this scenario many times and have had both positive and negative outcomes. I suppose we do this already on some level when we play, "find a penny, pick it up," I suppose it could mean something entirely different like most bible verses do and its meant to say that you aren't supposed to keep it and that you are supposed to spend it on others. For this conversation I'm asking. Is to complain not to brag? What does this do for your stress level? Does it affect your outlook of having a good day or not?
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