Today a little girl waved at me from the sidewalk
My aunt wanted to go shopping I guess, with my grandmother and my mother. My mother is telling me this, adding, "She probably wants to go shopping with pleasant people." Except, well, she really isn't. Mom is under this misguided notion that everything wrong with the world is other people. Anything they do is wrong, anything they want is privileged. That person at the service counter complaining about their return is a spoiled yuppie; they couldn't be someone who is receiving poor service ans is just as frustrated as she would be. The guy cutting her off in traffic is just an asshole, not someone who is finally taking initiative because of her indecisiveness. The problem I see here is not the people, or the public, or those fun anonymous masses, but her outlook on these. And, I'm thinking my boyfriend has the same tunnel-vision. I'm not saying that they aren't both wonderful, caring, and generally pleasant people at all. But they look out and see the problems, and the flaws and everything that goes against their own opinions. And, they complain about these things. Which, doesn't really make them all that pleasant to be around. Just this morning Mom was complaining about how other neighbors' garbage cans were overflowing with trash and she was within regulation and paying the same amount to follow the rules, unlike they. Okay? so? Let it go, it isn't your problem, I don't know why you have an issue with it. I wish she wouldn't criticize everyone, and moreover, I wish she wouldn't expect me to see the same things. I do my best to have an open mind and not jump to conclusions, and not judge people on outward appearances and mannerisms. I mean, yes I judge, but I don't denounce a person's character because of the clothing they're wearing or the way they're acting. It doesn't make them a bad or good person and I have no right to make complaints about them.