It Takes All Sorts

Why do we beep at other drivers?

Why do we tut at the way other parents raise their kids?

Why do we criticise the running of a meeting?

Why do we scrutinise someone else’s housework?

Why do we scoff at the way someone dresses?

Why do we sneer at the meal someone has prepared/is preparing for us?

Why do we look down on people jogging along the roadside?

Why do we butt in when someone gets a small story detail wrong?

Why do we tell people they are wrong, just because they like a film we don’t?

Do we really want everybody in the whole world to be like us?

To look like us?  To act like us?  To think like us?

Is it a power thing – do we want to take over the whole world.

Or is it a selfish thing – where we want nothing to exist except me, me, me.

Whatever it is, it’s horrible.

I choose to stop judging, stop criticising, stop telling people they are ‘wrong’.

Who appointed me a driving instructor? Nobody.

If I beep at another driver, will they wave politely and thank me for pointing out their ‘mistake’?  Of course not.

So I make it none of my business how someone parks or drives or overtakes.

Instead, I choose to be PROUD of someone, when I see them jogging in the street.

I choose to be Grateful, whenever someone gives or makes me anything.

I choose to Accept people as they are.

I choose to Respect people who do their best.

I choose to Honour everyone I come across.

And little by little, the World around me is becoming a better place....