I think learning from your own experiences and mistakes, is an important part of life...
Here is a lesson Matt and I learned not too long ago...
once, my husband, who really is a good soul.... and honest to the bone...gives money back to cashiers all the time, when they make mistakes, turns wallets in he finds with all intact, helps the old lady cross the street etc....
had an incident in a store he was shopping in once, that i will never forget. A lesson was learned by the both of us from it...
making a long long story short, matt was in a hurry, shopping for a specific thing, there was a woman blocking the aisle while she was shopping, matt needed to get by and several times he said, ''excuse me'' to her, trying to get her to shimmy over and let him by and she just ignored him each time, on purpose....which was making him angry....but he finally got by her and went on his way, still angry inside, and cursing her rudeness inside his head....which is really not fitting of his personality but he had a bad day at work, needed to stop and get this widget, and just wanted to get it and go home, with it, in hand....
Well, he got by as said, went on and found what he needed, and at the register while paying for it, he saw this woman that had blocked him and put the topping on his already crappy day...another woman had joined her....
AND that is when he noticed....that she was using sign language....she was deaf, and never heard him asking her to move, so he could get by.... he got angry for nothing....he thought awful things about this woman.... HE WAS SO ASHAMED OF HIMSELF....when he walked through the door that evening, he told me what happened confessed to me immediately on how horrible he was, and sorry he was so filled with anger for someone he obviously did not know enough about to make the judgments he did about her.
DO we really know people well enough here on this site, to even let someone else on here make us angry over their point of view? I've fallen pray to such myself....
WHAT is your story, your one lesson learned that sticks out?
care
Here is a lesson Matt and I learned not too long ago...
once, my husband, who really is a good soul.... and honest to the bone...gives money back to cashiers all the time, when they make mistakes, turns wallets in he finds with all intact, helps the old lady cross the street etc....
had an incident in a store he was shopping in once, that i will never forget. A lesson was learned by the both of us from it...
making a long long story short, matt was in a hurry, shopping for a specific thing, there was a woman blocking the aisle while she was shopping, matt needed to get by and several times he said, ''excuse me'' to her, trying to get her to shimmy over and let him by and she just ignored him each time, on purpose....which was making him angry....but he finally got by her and went on his way, still angry inside, and cursing her rudeness inside his head....which is really not fitting of his personality but he had a bad day at work, needed to stop and get this widget, and just wanted to get it and go home, with it, in hand....
Well, he got by as said, went on and found what he needed, and at the register while paying for it, he saw this woman that had blocked him and put the topping on his already crappy day...another woman had joined her....
AND that is when he noticed....that she was using sign language....she was deaf, and never heard him asking her to move, so he could get by.... he got angry for nothing....he thought awful things about this woman.... HE WAS SO ASHAMED OF HIMSELF....when he walked through the door that evening, he told me what happened confessed to me immediately on how horrible he was, and sorry he was so filled with anger for someone he obviously did not know enough about to make the judgments he did about her.
DO we really know people well enough here on this site, to even let someone else on here make us angry over their point of view? I've fallen pray to such myself....
WHAT is your story, your one lesson learned that sticks out?
care
