Flotsam and Jetsam - Clearing out the Negative ... Maybe
I may have hit my limit today. I say "may" because overall I am a forgiving sort. Not naive - I am no sunshine and roses everything's peachy all the time sort of person. I don't forget but I do forgive and empathize and understand because I can get into another's head and see where they are coming from and why they say and do what they do which leads to forgiveness. But even I have my limits. I am tired. Tired of the sniping, the negativity, the mindset that finds "evil" in the intellect, in being from the East Coast (or West Coast), in believing that caring for the less fortunate is somehow not appropriate for our culture/society, that might makes right and not might for right, that their version of religion is the only right version and that people who are different - that is: not white, not upper middle class, not Christian (their version mind you), not heterosexual, whose first language isn't English, who have piercings or tattoos etc. - hav...