It never ceases to amaze me, the things people say and do, and think it's okay.
People seem to have "selective memory" when it comes to the things they say to one another.
Didn't it hurt, when we were kids, to have other kids say nasty things to us? We learned to laugh it off or come up with hurtful retorts, but the pain was still there. Why, then, do we, as adults, feel that we can say and do anything to others. As blunt as I can be, I learned long ago that I can think anything I want, but if it isn't nice, or at least helpful, I should keep it to myself... and even though it isn't easy sometimes, I try never to comment on what people LOOK LIKE! It is secretly gratifying, and has been for the last 20 years (since I started on my weight-loss journey), to see many of the people who felt the need to tell me, every day when I was a fat teen, that I was fat; get and stay, bigger than I am.
Speaking of the things people say...
People are coming down on Vice Pres Joe Biden for saying that the middle class has been buried for that last four years. They say he is dumb for saying it. I say, he is right, but he and the POTUS are not to blame for it. The Republican "party of NO", is responsible. The blocking of every helpful policy, just to make sure the President fails, has been responsible. If people, republicans, tea-partiers, and all those who trash the President, don't see it, then they are really blind and perhaps a bit "slow". (I was about to say "they rode the short bus to school", but that is mean and truly an affront to those people who actually did ride the short bus, who know what the POTUS has been doing... working for health care for them and for you and me.)
Sticks and stones can hurt no worse than the stuff that comes out of our mouths! Let's remember that the next time we get ready to say something that isn't nice. It might just come back to bite you in the butt!!
