Be more accepting

Sometimes someone will explain to me something they want to do, or a direction they want to take in life. Though I get my urges to imply that they, for example, shouldn’t be thinking about buying another HDTV when they have a daughter starting college next year, I’ve learned to keep the judgments to myself. Often times people make the right decision in the end

I want to admit that I do have a tendency to be somewhat selfish and judgemental. Instead I would like to recognize myself as caring and accepting. I think the first hurdle that I’ll have to jump is my tendency to focus on just my life, and actually listen to people. I would also like to do more caring things. This may sound pathetic, but I would like to be able to give fourth unto the world, one act of kindness every week (even if it just means calling my mom from college, and making sure to ask HER about HER life.) Hopefully by being kinder, I’ll get a better idea of how fragile and easily pleased people are, which will make it easier for me to accept what I normally consider annoying about people.

So I would not expect people to be different from who they are, and would stop trying to bend world to my vision. Just let it be…

Just to clarify, I don’t mean total blanket acceptance. I mean, I can never accept that kids can’t go to school anymore without wondering who might go postal.
I cannot accept “Status Quo”
I cannot accept that people go without health insurance, even those who work.
I cannot accept many things. So maybe I must learn to accept the fact that I truely can’t.

I consider myself a tolerent person, but the one thing that I cannot seem to tolerate is the lack of common sense. I need to work on this. Here’s an example – I’m standing in a kitchen washing dishes and an adult volunteer comes up to me and asks where she can find hot soapy water … aaaaaaaaaaaagh! I need to learn to accept those that have less common sense than myself and who need to ask what to do next.