Let Me Tell You How You Should Be? - September 3, 2014

Due to certain situations that came up recently, I felt a need to get this off my chest.  Luckily, what I am discussing didn’t have so much to do with me, but what I observed between other people out in public.

It amazes me still how some people think they have a right to convey to everyone around them of how others should be living their lives ~ particularly in small communities ~ (just imagine folks with a pompous attitude getting ready to give you a piece of their mind).  Use your imagination to envision someone who doesn’t even know you, or perhaps not anymore, or you were only ever acquaintances, or perhaps grew up around them and knew of each other’s existence but never friends, but THEY STILL THINK they have some sort of privilege to be a dictator on your life; everything from where you live, to how you look, to your career choices, and even commenting on your relationships with your family and friends.  Why do they think they can? Worse! Why do they think they can with a tone of a commanding officer, or even a snotty voice? I have theories, and here they are:

-I am thinking they are not completely happy with their own lives so the only way to make themselves better by constantly commenting or giving directives to others around them.

-Perhaps they are envious of something about the person they are giving commands to?

-Maybe they think that everyone values their opinions no matter what they are conveying, and or how they express it? Thus they are unable to realize that this is not likely the case as most people are probably going to be offended and angry by such insights by such a person?

-Just too busy making everyone else’s business their own, whatever the reason for that is?

-Too much time on their hands?

-Naturally invasive individuals?

-Don’t want to have to deal with their own problems or issues so they focus on other peoples’ lives?

-They are only happy by being unhappy with the rest of the world?

Who knows!

Ange.