These are interesting times indeed.

As I move forward with my CD project, I am engaging new acquaintances and my frustration level is peaking. Why do people want to immediately put you in a box, within the first moments of contact? Why do we, as people, find it necessary to stereotype others, and classify their motivations so readily? Why are we so willing to selectively listen to conversations in order to pass rapid judgment?

Is it because we live in the age of rapid assimilation of information? Is it because we need the instant gratification in social awareness, like the drive-up fast-food window of human intervention?

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Self righteous attitudes are the way to live in this world. Look around you. Look at all of those presumably successful and happy people that you encounter on your daily trip through life. I became apparent to me long ago that one could sling a lot of bull crap against the wall and a large percentage of it would stick. Amazing, simply amazing.

So now, I must ask myself, has my attitude become the same as those that I loathe? Am I so willing to place others in the box of "shallow, self righteous, BS slingers" that I am no longer capable of listening and giving the benefit of doubt?  I am certain that I must work on me first. I am also certain that I am not going to change the world, so I must learn to exist in the world, as best I can, while I’m here. I need to calm down, be patient, and listen.

Somehow, I will.