People

This morning I was singing to Patrick and now I have 'It's a Small World' running through my head...

When you think about it, it really is a small world.  Oceans separate us and it's a 24+ hr. flight to some places in the world but when it comes down to it, people are just people aren't they?  On some level we all have the same ideas.  We just go about it differently on how we want to accomplish those ideas. But, I don't get people...

People confuse me.  I'm not a people person and for the most part I would be just fine with my little family and no interference from the 'outsiders'.  I was recently reading on a board how many people seem to think that it is inconsiderate to share good things about your children.  I was like 'what??'  I am always sharing the things that my children do.  I am so dang proud of them!  I don't think of myself as a braggart.  I stopped reading the thread but by the 10th or 11th page. By then I think most agreed that the offended parents were insecure or dealing with a problem with their child.  My thoughts are that every child is good at something and there is good in every day--why are you not sharing the good?  Why are you dwelling on the bad and being offended at a comment that someone else made?  See, I don't get people...

People seem to get pissed off at the slightest inconveniences to them.  I don't understand that either.  Wake up Waldo--you are not the center of the universe and my world does not revolve around you!  I think I am a kind person (I smile at random people in Walmart) and try to help others when I can, but I also know my limits.  It's a good thing to know your limits because then you are not out there trying to please everybody in the world.  It works for me, but again, I don't get people...

Other things that I have read about today--not using the term boy or girl in a classroom situation.  This one really boggles my mind.  I mean either you are a boy or a girl.  So it seems there is curricula out there that will help a teacher to teach in a non-gender fashion so as to not offend a boy or a girl--WOW!  See, I don't get people...

Spanking kids.  A swat here and there on the bottom ok--I probably don't have a problem with that on most days.  I read a story about a child lying for 2 weeks and after she finally confessed she got a spanking every day for 2 weeks.  Yeah, that's mother of the year material right there!  And add to it that it's all in the name of God that this is done.  I don't pretend to know the mind of God, but I'm betting He thought it was cruel...I don't get people...

I thought at one time I had a handle on people but lately I have to realize just how fragile everyone is.  People seem to mask things very well these days.  But just observe them a little closer...most are hanging on by a thread.  That one is insecure, that one thinks she's ugly, the other one is sneaky or at least he thinks he is, those over there are ready to drop their kids off at a fire station, these are eaten up with guilt, she worries all the time...the list goes on...and the song plays on "It's a small world afterall...it's a small, small world'.