Can't Be Bothered Already (Abridged)
I find it hard to tolerate an attitude of can't-be-botheredness. It doesn't bother me if some total stranger act up this way, but from someone I know and laboured with, and for no particular reason...
Ya, go ahead and tell me to deal with it (a.k.a. that's my problem!) But that can't be my modus operandi.
Why bother trying so hard to build bridges somewhere with people who needs help, in the name of compassion, only to burn bridges elsewhere with others from whom acts of kindness have been received? Are we offering help to make ourselves feel good? Then it is not out of sincerity. Are we too prideful to appreciate others' kindness? It takes one with a big and humble heart to receive from others.
While insisting our rights to privacy and not open up to explain our situations, we forfeit the rights to expect others to bear our rudeness while we are indulging in our circumstance. Everybody has problems in life. So we can't push our frustations on unsuspecting people who has no part in our misery. It would be even more ridiculous to be in a state of feeling perturbed when others do the same to us.
Matthew 7:1-5
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
It's not how you begin that matters, but how you end.
It's sad that I have to resort to this mode of communication...
Ya, go ahead and tell me to deal with it (a.k.a. that's my problem!) But that can't be my modus operandi.
Why bother trying so hard to build bridges somewhere with people who needs help, in the name of compassion, only to burn bridges elsewhere with others from whom acts of kindness have been received? Are we offering help to make ourselves feel good? Then it is not out of sincerity. Are we too prideful to appreciate others' kindness? It takes one with a big and humble heart to receive from others.
While insisting our rights to privacy and not open up to explain our situations, we forfeit the rights to expect others to bear our rudeness while we are indulging in our circumstance. Everybody has problems in life. So we can't push our frustations on unsuspecting people who has no part in our misery. It would be even more ridiculous to be in a state of feeling perturbed when others do the same to us.
Matthew 7:1-5
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
It's not how you begin that matters, but how you end.
It's sad that I have to resort to this mode of communication...
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