Friday, January 1, 2010

New Year's Resolution

I think that everyone should make it their New Year's resolution this to mind their own damned business.
Don't get me wrong, It is nice when people like to help out or lend a hand to someone who asks for it but other than that mind your own damned business. Helping out is one thing, but being the judge and jury for the world is another. Everyone from vegans who yell "meat is murder" from their middle class podiums or liberals who want to help the less fortunate as long as the less fortunate sit down and shut up. Or the conservatives who do not want to help anyone but want to dispense advice and caveats to all they deem unworthy of help. It is okay as long as they say it is okay.
Those of you who want to impose your values on everyone else and are angry when those people tell you where to get off should mind their own damned business.
Everyone does not value the same things even if we want them to. There are people who do not value education, so be it . That does not make them bad people because I am sure they value things that other people do not .
We must in 2010 stop dispensing judgment on those we deem unworthy of our respect and listen to them as well as the people who agree with us or just tell us want we want to hear.
As a teacher ,I think this is very important because some of the people that I work with are not as reserved in their judgments as others and feel as if they are like Peace Corps dispensing knowledge, virtue and morals to the less fortunate. Get off of it we are public school teachers and we work for those people that we deem unfortunate, they pay our salaries just as well as the Crocus Hill crowd and they deserve respect not pity or moral judgement.
Stop the moral judgments especially those of us who do not mind teaching in the public schools but would die and go to hell before we let any of our own kids attend them.
We are all guilty of dispensing moral judgments ( I am doing it right now), but 2010 should be the year to cut back and learn more about the people we criticize before we make moral judgments that hurt more than help, wound more than heal and above all drive us farther and farther apart. Live and let live, judge lest we not be judged.
Happy New Year