Patience and kindness

Two good qualities of character are that of having patience and kindness. It does not matter how old you are, or how old the people are that you come into contact with each day. They may be your family, neighbors or strangers that you brush past occasionally.

Using patience and kindness when in the presence of others is treating them with respect. Remember the Golden Rule? “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Likewise, and most importantly, it is a true test of character when you are placed in a position of interacting and helping the elderly people. Always remember...you too, will be old someday...so how would you like to be treated?

Boy, am I glad that I didn't go!!

I am talking about the early morning day of….and the day after Thanksgiving BIG sales! People have been sharing with me their tales of shopping horror stories!!

Evidently some people are not very nice when it comes to going to several big name stores at 1:00 in the morning just to be assured of getting at the front of the line and standing there until 3 a.m., when the store opens for their “unbelievable early bird sales”.

Then when they open the doors, it’s like a stampede into the store, with running, pushing, bumping, and shoving. And once into the store, there is grabbing of merchandise, yelling at others that you had it first.

But, what the store fails to do, however, is to purchase a fairly ample supply of the sale item. Once into the store, you discover that YOUR item you had hopes of purchasing….well….the store only purchased 3 of them!! One nice mother, having just missed out on the last toy item she had hoped to get for her children for Christmas, overheard the woman who got the last one say, “I just bought it for the fun of it".

A story reported in Las Vegas, commented about the several fights that broke out in the lines that were waiting for the store to open. Police had to be called to the scene.

What gets into SOME people? Where are their priorities? Do they forsake kindness and consideration to others….just for the obtaining of a material object?