I just had an a-ha moment in the shower and wanted to share it with you before I moved on to Dr. Phil. I was thinking about what type of person I wanted to be, and I thought of a couple of different things:
- I recently went to a TV show taping, and the audience members around me talked a lot–mostly in response to what was going on on the set, but sometimes it was just talking. If you’re talking over something you’re there to see, why bother going to the show? Stay at home and talk. A pro football player was also in the audience, and when he was pointed out, people bombarded him with autograph requests. I understand people like feeling close to celebrities, but when you get one autograph for someone and then realize you need three more for the other grandchildren–and wait, maybe your nephew would like one too–then I think that gets a little imposing. The demands started to sound a little disrespectful to me.
- I’ve been thinking about the environment a lot and trying to figure out what I can do to make it better. As the snow in Chicago has melted, it’s uncovered an enormous amount of trash. Why do people litter and disrespect the earth like that. Don’t you remember Woodsy Owl and “Give a hoot, don’t pollute?” One would think that even if you’re too young to know that catchphrase, your parents would know it and would have taught you better.
So, in thinking about these things, I realized that I want to be a respectful person. Respect others, respect myself, respect animals, the earth, things. This is actually kind of a hard task because I also like mocking and poking fun of, and I’m not sure how respectful that is–maybe I’ll become better at constructive mocking. Is that possible? Can it be?
Seriously though, it was nice to have an official a-ha moment. It gives me something concrete to work on.
