I am driving to my yoga class yesterday evening and as I pass through an intersection a young man is walking in the cross walk. Help me understand this about him and the hundreds of other males I see doing this...
Your pants are SO big that you have to walk with one hand holding them up. I can see your underwear and all of your butt. You have a belt on - but it does nothing to hold up your pants as you are still walking with one hand holding them up. Why? Help me understand this.
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I often host parties and when I do I typically allow friends to bring their friends. We are adults and I would never classify my parties as wild. On New Years, one of my girlfriends came to me and told me, "You have a man hanging in your shower" - I immediately jumped to someone is in my house that should not be there. Only to come to find out, no, someone had drawn a man hanging from a rope on my shower curtain. My shower curtain is a large tree, so the man was hanging from the tree. It was in pen. It was about at the level where you can tell someone grabbed a pen while they were on my toilet and proceeded to deface my house. Help me understand why an adult would draw on something in my house?
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I look around and I see so many things that don't make sense. Why would anyone steal? Why are kids bullying each other? Why would someone kill a stranger? Why do people claim to be on diets and them post all of the unhealthy meals or liquid calories they eat on Facebook? Why do people say they are trying to save money or have no money - yet they have cell phones, fake nails, name brand clothing, or they smoke and drink on a regular basis?
Now, I know that I do not always act logically - but I try. I try to act with compassion and kindness. Help me understand why it appears that I am living in a world were so many people aren't?
Can you tell that I have started reading more news lately? Maybe I just need to cut that out...
Your pants are SO big that you have to walk with one hand holding them up. I can see your underwear and all of your butt. You have a belt on - but it does nothing to hold up your pants as you are still walking with one hand holding them up. Why? Help me understand this.
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I often host parties and when I do I typically allow friends to bring their friends. We are adults and I would never classify my parties as wild. On New Years, one of my girlfriends came to me and told me, "You have a man hanging in your shower" - I immediately jumped to someone is in my house that should not be there. Only to come to find out, no, someone had drawn a man hanging from a rope on my shower curtain. My shower curtain is a large tree, so the man was hanging from the tree. It was in pen. It was about at the level where you can tell someone grabbed a pen while they were on my toilet and proceeded to deface my house. Help me understand why an adult would draw on something in my house?
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I look around and I see so many things that don't make sense. Why would anyone steal? Why are kids bullying each other? Why would someone kill a stranger? Why do people claim to be on diets and them post all of the unhealthy meals or liquid calories they eat on Facebook? Why do people say they are trying to save money or have no money - yet they have cell phones, fake nails, name brand clothing, or they smoke and drink on a regular basis?
Now, I know that I do not always act logically - but I try. I try to act with compassion and kindness. Help me understand why it appears that I am living in a world were so many people aren't?
Can you tell that I have started reading more news lately? Maybe I just need to cut that out...
Someone ruined your tree shower curtain?? :(
ReplyDeleteNo worries - I replaced it with the same - only in white fabric instead of the frosted plastic. So maybe it was a nice excuse for the upgrade. But still money I was not planning on spending.
DeleteI guess it's the same question that people have been asking since the beginning of time. The longer I live the more the world seems completely nuts. Am I really such an oddity because I apply the golden rule? Since when? But then I think about and some of my earliest memories of school and they include those individuals that were always coloring outside the lines, so to say.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's our upbringing, but I also think that having lived my life "by the rules," for the most part, has been most rewarding. I highly recommend it for those who have not tried it.
Perhaps that why I look forward to my eternal life so much :)