Accepting Others

Happy Friday! It’s been a day, another really stupid slow day. Other than getting the information together for my Dickies partnership, sizing charts and what not, there’s been no one in. I was really hoping that I was over having days like that but, alas, not yet. Just gotta keep trying and hoping tomorrow is a better day.

It’s also been very rainy but that is expected in Savannah in the summer. My husband likes to watch the weather every night and I always ask why because it’s the same each and every day right now, 90’s with a chance of rain. We have about another month of this and then it might change just a bit. I mean it’s only going to be in the low 90’s this upcoming week instead of the mid to upper 90’s. That’s a little different, right?!

With our upcoming election and all the political discord it really got me thinking how all I want to do is help people. It doesn’t matter who you are. I will celebrate your uniqueness and do my best to give each and every person the help and respect they deserve. We’re all just people after all and somewhere we have commonalities, right?! I have to hope so.

Now don’t get me wrong. I will not tolerate anyone who is going to disparage a group of people, any group of people. If you are going to tell me that some race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc., is bad, I will ask you to leave my store. That has no place here. Nope, not at all. I do not hate people, I get frustrated with them, but I never hate them. We are all beautiful in who we are and that needs to be celebrated at every opportunity. There is no fear in getting to know someone who is different, or from a different place, than us. By getting to know different people we grow and evolve in our understanding of others. This can then create a better community.

Where might you ask, have I come up with these ideas of accepting others. It wasn’t necessarily from when I was a child as I grew up in white, rural America. My best guess is a lifetime of observation, understanding history, and a love of travel. My husband and I have spent our marriage travelling and seeing new places and meeting new people. I love to read about history and understanding the people that I am reading about and what they have gone through. Lastly, I pay attention. Just because I’m the quiet one doesn’t mean I’m not noticing what others are doing and how they treat people, and when I see something I don’t like, I put it in the back of my brain to remind myself to never do that. I’m not saying I’m perfect, but I do my best to be accepting.

I will now get off my soapbox. It was just something I felt like I needed to say. Just be kind to people, you might find you like them.

            Until next time,

                        Have a Healthy Day