Attitude

I'm trying to be patient with people, (although I feel like at this time in my life it should be the other way around) but I had a hard time with it this week.

I know that none of us can completely understand what anyone else is going through. But the "until you've walked a mile in their shoes" philosophy has gone by the wayside it seems.

Work was tough this week. I definitely got the cold shoulder at the beginning of the week for being out for 4 days. I worked extra when I found out I was going to be out and tied up all my projects with a pretty little bow as best I could as well as used the 2 remaining days I had for 2009 and borrowed 2 from 2010. I didn't just take "free days". But when I got back there were comments about how I'd just been out for 4 days, etc. I commented back that for 2 of those days I'd have rather been at work. That got a strange look. People just don't get it. And I guess I should stop expecting them to. But they were acting as though I'd been gone for 2 weeks on a lovely Caribbean cruise instead of attending a 2nd major funeral in 6 months. Do people not understand what kind of emotional toil that takes on a person? These weren't fun days off. They were hard. And with lingering effects.

But since I don't want to be a hypocrite, I don't know what these people are going through either, which is why I'm trying to be patient with them.

I have just one last question: Could we all just be kinder to each other?