Something that brought my attention and captured it in the small town I live in was the people are overall generally different to city people. City people seem to be in a rush from here to there because there is so much to do and so much to see and so not enough time to jam it all in... But if there were more time that extra time would be activity jammed too.
In this and other small towns the people generally have the time to say a few nice and kind things, generally more helpful, generally really friendly. I bought it down to the lifestyle.
We are faced with majority of beaches, dunes, islands, fun life giving scenery and adventures at most turns.. Isn't it lovely and precious and magnificent.
Some days, and I mean not very often I come across the kind of person that I think you could call
Mean-spirited. They come into your space, into your home, near your kids and are to be really brunt, quite rude. They don't say hello, or acknowledge your existence, as you talk to them they don't even acknowledge that you've spoken, they are critical, they ask or expect something of you and as you speak they argue/defend/do not listen or hear what you have said as if your lying and you wonder what is going on in their apparent miserable life for them to be void of even the hint of a smile, the hint of happiness, the hint of joy in their hearts, the hint of goodness.
As I faced this person today whom I have contact with every 2-3 months I felt afterwards that she thinks of me as a second rate kind of person. Whilst feeling rather down and out about the scene I made that feeble attempt to look up and beyond the actual circumstances of events and towards the heart of this person. I thought to myself, I wonder what she would look like if she smiled, I wonder what her laugh would sound like, I wonder if I would recognize her if I saw her with her own crowd of people, I wonder why she appears so void of positive emotion, I wonder why she appears so miserable. Does she hate her job? Do people in her workplace make her life miserable? Does she make her workplace miserable? How does she treat other people? How does she feel? What is going on in her life that is so traumatizing that the simplest of courtesy is absent.
Whilst I'm guilty of behaving this way I am so sure, so positive, and now so determined not to be like this ALL the time.
When and if I've been like this to you or near you I sincerely apologise and I am positive it is not a personal thing towards you.
5 Things I am Thankful for:
1. Joy in my heart even with turmoil of life surrounding me
2. Reasons to smile, causes to laugh
3. Hope and faith to rest upon
4. Reason and purpose to life
5. Fulfilling dream occupation
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