I Wonder
I often wonder how this world could be if people were to take the time to put others before themselves.
I do this often, to the point I find myself defending my actions.
"What did you do that for?"
They question, eyes wide...filled with sincere surprise.
I often wonder, how I am to respond to this.
Have you ever been made feel guilty for helping another?
"After all they did to you?"
Again, that tone of voice, that insinuates I'm the crazy one.
I often wonder how people can be so selfish. How easily they can ignore a good deed.
Seeking motive so that perhaps they can somehow justify not returning the deed.
"Yeah...real nice...but what's she really after?"
I wonder if I answered with "clear conscious", would they understand then?
Forgiveness and compassion are essential for a community to thrive.
Empathy and understanding should be words in our everyday vocabulary.
I wonder if they've ever even made it to a grade school spelling test.
I often wonder how people manage to sleep at night.
Do they ever move beyond the thought and action to ponder consequences?
If they could reverse their thinking and perhaps consider consequences first,
I wonder if the world would be a better place?
Just me....just wondering...just doing what I do.
I do this often, to the point I find myself defending my actions.
"What did you do that for?"
They question, eyes wide...filled with sincere surprise.
I often wonder, how I am to respond to this.
Have you ever been made feel guilty for helping another?
"After all they did to you?"
Again, that tone of voice, that insinuates I'm the crazy one.
I often wonder how people can be so selfish. How easily they can ignore a good deed.
Seeking motive so that perhaps they can somehow justify not returning the deed.
"Yeah...real nice...but what's she really after?"
I wonder if I answered with "clear conscious", would they understand then?
Forgiveness and compassion are essential for a community to thrive.
Empathy and understanding should be words in our everyday vocabulary.
I wonder if they've ever even made it to a grade school spelling test.
I often wonder how people manage to sleep at night.
Do they ever move beyond the thought and action to ponder consequences?
If they could reverse their thinking and perhaps consider consequences first,
I wonder if the world would be a better place?
Just me....just wondering...just doing what I do.
Comments
Love this:
"I wonder if the world would be a better place?"
I wonder too...
I had made a pretty clean break from this world I've been thrust back into...resulting in a terrible case of the heebee jeebies and wanting to go home and hide under the covers AGAIN to escape. If I hear "it's just business" one more time to justify unethical action or even worse, just plain cruelty and bullying...well, gosh...I don't know what I'll do. Pollyanna lives on! :)