I’m not a very social person. I dont like large crowds or small crowds. You won’t find me in the middle of the crowd chit-chatting about nonsense or stocking up on the latest gossip. You’ll find me off to the side, out of the way, appearing to be lost in my own little world. But im not. I’m paying attention. I know what’s going on around me. Im an observer. I watch and I listen.
Which is what I was doing recently when I noticed someone with zero experience telling someone with years of experience exactly what and how they were going to go about something. And it was nothing to me but it got ahold of my last nerve and was swinging from it. People.
What gives someone the right to dictate another’s life? What gives any person the right to make another person’s choices for them? Know it all’s, bullies, dictators, people who just walk around with the assumption that they know the only way to do anything the right way.
It may seem small. As small as how to make sweet tea. Or how you should fold your towels. If you’re letting someone tell you how to fold a towel or boil some water and throw some tea bags in they are already in control and those small things will become the bigger things. Telling someone what they can wear, who they can be friends with, what they can eat, where they can go.
It creates a feeling of unworthiness in a person. An “I’m never going to be good enough” cloud settles over them. If you’ve ever known someone who is driving down the road or just doing a simple everyday task and all of a sudden they are sobbing uncontrollably like their heart has been ripped out, chances are someone has told them who they can be.
Who do you think you are? To tell someone what kind of wife or mother they can be? What kind of career they must have? How much they should weigh?
So what if someone doesn’t do something you’re way or in the amount of time you think it should be done in. That doesn’t mean they are doing it wrong or that it’s not going to get done. And it sure doesn’t mean you can belittle or degrade them and make them feel worthless or take away the thing they love the most. If it’s someone you love, well then you ought to be ashamed. If it’s someone you don’t know, mind your own business.
If this seems all over the place and doesn’t make complete sense I apologize. It made sense to me🤷🏻♀️
Because I know such people and I know that someone that walks around broken. Seriously, who do you think you are??
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