I am going to be off to run errands shortly, but I was thinking about a post I wrote the other day, and I thought I'd add a little more today. I am adding it here though. Maybe I will add it there too. I am adding this one here, because I thought I would do a little survey at the bottom. I don't know if it will ever be seen by anyone, but that is okay by me really. Getting it out of my head is the big step.
I was thinking about how people can often hide who they are in certain situations or around certain people. I know we have to in some instances. In general I am pretty much a snarky but loveable kind of chick. I am a one-liner queen, but I have to keep that at bay in the office, because I do not want to risk insulting anyone. Even when I am being insulted. There is something about the anonymity of being on the phone that makes some people bloody rude. I take it in stride and smile pleasantly as I respond to the most rude comments and irate calls. I think to myself often how I would like to just once set that person in their place. I would like to just once not even yell back, but ask them if they really feel that they would ever talk to me in that tone or say the things they are saying if I could actually look them in the eye? I imagine they would not.
It isn't that I feel people are hypocrites. I think that some are for sure, but I also believe that people just don't think when they talk to someone on the phone, or at least they do not think when they talk to a faceless someone. It is incredible to me. I am glad that I experience it. I really am, because it has taught me to be even more kind and polite to those I interact with on the phone. Because I know that they are probably dealing with the kinds of things I deal with every day, and honestly, people's anger and irritability is wasted on us. If we were the decision makers, do you really think we would be the ones answering the phone.
Back to behaviors, because the phone is just an example. What about church? Are you a different person when you are at church and all dressed up in your church clothes? Are you the same person when you are driving home from church as you are when you are standing in the line at the grocery store? This is not directed at just Christians either. Because I think that in many ways we all have several faces. I have friends who aren't Christians, and I know they have a work persona and play persona. We get in mom mode, wife mode, friend mode, and the best DEFENSIVE DRIVER mode. OY! That one probably brings out the worst in all of us. I, myself, used to drive with an imaginary paint gun. I would imagine paint balling the bumper of the car that just flew in front of me. Kind of a tag for their naughty deeds.
Well...I am off for now. I was just thinking. If you read this, maybe you will think too. Either way, can you be kinder to that woman or man on the other end of the phone?
Me oh myo me...
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