Kindness and diplomacy
I think I have kindness, and then I struggle to develop my diplomatic skills. Needless to say I wasn't trained for this. I didn't get the surname "Little Red Truck" for nothing (though it was meant as "Little Red Tank", but, minor detail).
If I see it's broken and I need it to work, I fix it. I'm not gonna fix the Universe, but if I happen to have an idea that can help, I share it. Just as simple as that. What benefits the whole also benefits me, and vice versa, nobody's an island, as What's-His-Name said.
This is why I called the pediatric clinic instead of showing up. I knew that, over the phone, I could manage to remain kind and polite when I reminded them that
- they still haven't filled the federal form for my son that I left them over 2 months ago
- they still didn't give me the appointment for my son that they were supposed to give me at the beginning of April
Nowadays, I get plenty of opportunities to put my kindness to use and to develop my diplomacy (and more "opportunities" will present themselves soon). My modern life, my digital life and my current middle ages life all seem to converge toward this. Granted, it may have something to do with having to deal with a lot more people at once than usual.
So, I could probably sum up all that's happening lately as a mix of grace and fight. I fight a constant battle for my son, but there are also moments of bliss that I carve out of daily life and snatch them from the claws of life. Sometimes, they are just offered, as a gift, unexpected and without having to focus on them to happen.
And there are people, all these people I don't know or merely, that I get in contact with, for a broad variety of reasons, and who sometimes require quite a bit of diplomacy to interact with, while others inspire me more kindness than usual. Each person is a universe, as I am, and none of us is finished yet.
Universe in progress.
If I see it's broken and I need it to work, I fix it. I'm not gonna fix the Universe, but if I happen to have an idea that can help, I share it. Just as simple as that. What benefits the whole also benefits me, and vice versa, nobody's an island, as What's-His-Name said.
This is why I called the pediatric clinic instead of showing up. I knew that, over the phone, I could manage to remain kind and polite when I reminded them that
- they still haven't filled the federal form for my son that I left them over 2 months ago
- they still didn't give me the appointment for my son that they were supposed to give me at the beginning of April
Nowadays, I get plenty of opportunities to put my kindness to use and to develop my diplomacy (and more "opportunities" will present themselves soon). My modern life, my digital life and my current middle ages life all seem to converge toward this. Granted, it may have something to do with having to deal with a lot more people at once than usual.
So, I could probably sum up all that's happening lately as a mix of grace and fight. I fight a constant battle for my son, but there are also moments of bliss that I carve out of daily life and snatch them from the claws of life. Sometimes, they are just offered, as a gift, unexpected and without having to focus on them to happen.
And there are people, all these people I don't know or merely, that I get in contact with, for a broad variety of reasons, and who sometimes require quite a bit of diplomacy to interact with, while others inspire me more kindness than usual. Each person is a universe, as I am, and none of us is finished yet.
Universe in progress.