DON\u2019T BE AN ASS!<\/span><\/h1>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
See how simple that is? It really does <\/em>apply to just about every situation. Just stop being an ass to other people, and you\u2019ll stop offending the vast majority.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re a parent, your first job is to teach your kids to love God, and your second is to<\/p>\n
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TEACH YOUR KIDS HOW TO NOT BE AN ASS!<\/span><\/h1>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
There you go. As long as you follow those simple rules for dealing with other people, you\u2019re good. It\u2019s not really all that difficult at all.<\/p>\n
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For those of us who fall into some sort of special group (which is all of us), we need to<\/p>\n
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STOP BEING SO FREAKING SENSITIVE ABOUT <\/span><\/h1>\nEVERYTHING!<\/span><\/h1>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The truth is that most of the people who say things which hurt your feelings or get you in a huff don\u2019t mean to. They\u2019re ignorant, and they\u2019re Mamas clearly didn\u2019t teach them any better. (Bless their hearts.) Whether or not you\u2019re<\/em> offended is a choice that you get to make. The dumb stuff isn\u2019t forcing you to be upset, you\u2019re choosing that for yourself. (Unless they\u2019re being rude on purpose,\u00a0 then you should be upset,\u00a0 because that guy is a jerk!)<\/p>\nChances are, that if you\u2019re hearing the same dumb things over and over again it\u2019s because most people don\u2019t know, and it\u2019s a common misconception! <\/em>If you have the time and the inclination, you can always educate them kindly. The world will be a slightly better place because you took the time to shine some light into the darkness of their ignorance. If you don\u2019t want to or don\u2019t have the time to enlighten them, you can always walk away unscathed, because they weren\u2019t doing it on purpose!!!<\/em><\/p>\nYes, I know that it\u2019s hard. I know that it\u2019s painful when people ask why (insert whatever it is here), or say dumb things, or stare at you or your children and it would be nice to b*&#h slap some sense into them. I get it. Smacking them won\u2019t smarten them up though, I promise. All you can control is yourself and your reactions. Perhaps the better choice would be to not<\/em> live in a constant state of outrage and prickly over-sensitivity, because no matter how dumb whatever they said was, THEY probably DIDN\u2019T MEAN IT THAT WAY! So let it go.<\/p>\nAll you can do is to pray for the stupid ones, instruct the ignorant\u2026and you should probably pray for the mean ones too. I will admit that I like to instruct the intentionally rude ones first though. I find that a disgusted look and \u201cYou\u2019re too (old, smart, funny, clever, whatever) to be this much of a jerk\u201d (I say ass, but I promised my mom that I\u2019d try to keep the bad words on my blog to a minimum) is very effective.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s all that you can do.<\/p>\n
So please remember the next time that someone says something dumb to you, they most likely don\u2019t mean it to be as dumb as it sounds to you. The majority of humanity really do mean well. Cut us some slack, and for the love of Pete, please stop telling us what not to say.<\/p>\n
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