It’s a warm summer day in October! Many are already wondering what has happened to fall. I mentioned the other day in one of my blogs hat we had our first COLD day with the temperature down to thirty four degrees. But today it’s gotten back up to eighty degrees. Here in Colorado I’ve heard the old saying for years: If you don’t like the weather just wait a few minutes and it will change. That really seems to be the truth. Now it may be that way in other areas, I’m not sure. But here in the Colorful State of Colorado it’s not an exaggeration!
It just made me think that a lot of times there are people that are just the same as the weather. At times they can be in a very light, happy disposition and then in only a matter of minutes they become a person that you DON’T want to be around. Why is that the case? Certainly there are those who have mental problems and need to seek professional help including perhaps medications to help them control these extreme mode swings. I’m NOT making any references to these because they cannot control the swings in their attitude without some type of aide.
No! I’m talking about people who just because of their nature they choose to be this split personality. And it seems when things are not going their way the swing is even more dramatic. Apparently from birth they were never trained to realize that things cannot always be the way they want them to be and when they’re not there are acceptable and unacceptable ways that they have to deal with it. You probably all know the type of people I am talking about! When they walk into the room it seems that everyone begins to “walk on eggshells” as the expression goes.
The truth may be even more drastic than we want to admit. WE may be one of these people and others are just too unnerved to even attempt to try to detail it for us. Or there may have been some occasion where a “friend” has tried to explain it to us “politely” and we haven’t been receptacle to grasping the idea that they were talking about US!
Do we “wear our emotions on our sleeve”? And they don’t want to experience the commotion that we may create if they try to tell us about the way others are viewing us. Maybe it’s just their way of being kind to us and letting us continue to live in our own little bubble: oblivious to the reality of what is going on around us. Or maybe they don’t really care or want to take the time and get involved in our antics. Whatever the case, I think we can all see that the real chance of change in our lives is going to be slim and none! If that is the case for us, can’t we see it would be the same for others that may need this change also?
Really if we truly loved and cared about our “friend” and their relationships with others wouldn’t we be doing them a great injustice if we allowed the situation to continue? Wouldn’t we instead be doing them a great service by making them aware of how they truly appeared to those around them? Might they resent our actions? Perhaps even no longer wanting to be our friend? Yes, that is possible! But to help another achieve a needed change in their life, regardless of what it might involve or how we may be affected by the action, is the greatest joy we may be able to obtain. An old saying that was shared with me many years ago certainly applies: If you love someone, TELL THEM!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"You can't change all the minds in the world,
but you can change ONE!"
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