Divisive and derisive behavior....


I wonder what we are teaching our kids and the younger generations behind us when we engage in divisive and derisive behavior every hour of our day?  Certainly it is healthy to vent our daily frustrations and challenges in life with others...but sometimes you do notice that with certain people in our lives or around us...this venting becomes out of control.  It slips and falls from simple venting energy, to alleged authoritarian knowledge on a particular topic.  There are so many shades of grey between the solid colors of black and white.  Who really has the authority to say something and be 100% right?

We get divided within our family.  We get divided within our neighborhood, our city, our state and our country.  We even divide ourselves between our sports teams.  But we are ALL still football, baseball, basketball or soccer fans??  The revenues prove it!  We are all still here in this family, this city, this state, country and planet - together.

Even when it comes to our politics and religion, we are divided.  Yet as long as you go out and exercise your individual right to vote, rather than repeat bad mouth language (much of which is based on distorted facts or complete fiction from whatever resources) about who you're voting for.  And furthermore, perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think Christians are favored more, than Muslims, Jews or Buddhists by God?  I just don't.  But I do think that when our final days come, WE WILL JUDGED by our Creater not on just how we worshipped, and by whatever name we called Him/Her - but also on how we lived and treated our fellow human beings here on this earth during the time that we were given.

All of this other stuff is either entertainment, profit making or xenophobia.

My friends...please remember to try to spread kindness, understanding and tolerance twice more a day than we do divisive and derisive behavior.

Thank you.  Now back to my writing...