Hello beloved, how was this week past? I know for many these holidays can be rough times. I know I seem to struggle and often I don’t even realize that the time of year has anything to with it. In the early years of my married life the holidays were a big hairy deal. Starting around mid October to maybe mid February, life revolved around one of the holidays. My partner was way into decorating for every occasion. The normal everyday decoration items would be packed up to be replaced with an over abundance of holiday specific items. This was a source of frustration in our relationship until I got my head to spot where my partners happiness was more important than my discomfort.
These days it seems that people in general are unwilling or unable to put aside their own stuff so that someone else can do something that makes them happy. Maybe having come from customer service type jobs my view is a bit skewed, I don’t know. So many times it seems people are unwilling to own the responsibility for their own stuff. If the bread goes moldy before you eat it all it must be the stores fault so take it back and demand a refund. You arrive late for work blame the stupid drivers you shared the road with rather than the fact that you hit the snooze button five times.
We need to lead by example and show others we work with or go to school with or our children that daily life is not something that just happens to us but rather we all must deal with the consequences of our choices. The choices we make from moment to moment affect everyone in our worlds whether or we ourselves acknowledge those people. If the person you are working with walks away you are affected by their choices are you not. Just like they would be affected if you chose to disappear from your work area because you felt like it at that moment.
How would things change if people started thinking about how their choices affected others? I am strictly thinking about the workplace with that question. Every business has a customer of some kind. One cranky customer raising a stink in most any type of business can set the tone for the whole day for more employees than the unfortunate one that had to deal with that crank. The reverse is also true. One bad employee can taint not only every customer that witnessed the bad employee but everyone those customers talk to for the rest of the day.
Oh beloved, what ever happened to “ it takes a village “? These days it seems more like “ you are here to serve me”. Oh well, I could ramble on but I think I made my point. Be blessed and bless someone else.
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