NEW RELEASES
New Year’s Resolution
Happy New Year!
I promised to blog about my New Year’s Resolutions, which aren’t mine at all, but the one’s I come up with for other people. I reviewed them with a person who’s known me all of my life and she said I couldn’t put them here because our blog is about writing and romance and my resolutions are mostly political. After I reviewed them, I know she’s right. But I can’t resist posting the main one. It actually covers most of the others anyway. If you are easily offended you should stop reading now . . .
This year, my New Year’s resolution is for all of the “Nosey People” in the world.
Dear Nosey People,
Your New Year’s resolution is to MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. It’s really simple – stop minding everyone else’s business when it doesn’t pertain to you in anyway, shape or form.
This is easy to figure out, especially here in America. We are free to do whatever we want as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others. Easy examples: you can’t murder someone because then they can’t enjoy their life, you can’t take other peoples stuff because then they cant enjoy their stuff, no drunk driving because, at worst, you could kill someone (see #1) or you could damage someone else’s property. Don’t make this harder than it has to be, you know what is truly your business, stick to it.
I hate nosey people. Hate is a strong word – but it fits how I feel. Here’s some of the nonsense this past year that caused me to make this resolution for the Nosey People:
In another country, the majority of the people are muslim and the minority are christian but they could be any religion because you read stories about different religions arguing with each all the time. The country’s high court has approved the christians using the word “allah” for the word “god”. I’ve been following this story for months. The muslims are protesting and firebombing churches. I don’t get it. Granted, I’m not religious but I am pretty intelligent and what difference does this make? If “allah” were actually upset about the christians using the word “allah’ wouldn’t “allah’ take care of this on “allah’s” own? Wouldn’t an omniscient, omnipotent being be able to defend its own name? Allah shouldn’t need anyones help with this so MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS and stop trying to harm other people and buildings.
Here, in our own country, is the battle over same sex marriage. I cannot figure out why, how, where this is anyones business but the two people involved. I read in the newspaper that some idiot called same sex relationships “unnatural”. Unnatural? WTF! What you like, who you love, etc., arises out of chemical reactions in the brain. It’s the way our brains work according to neuroscience. Isn’t that natural??? These nosey people don’t care if your favorite color is red if theirs is blue, but they sure care about other people’s relationships. I refuse to discuss this with these stupid people because they never have a valid reason for their nosiness in this area. It’s like talking to a monkey, sorry monkey . . . If you meet some happy people, who are not exactly like you, and they are not bothering anyone else – MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
I know a woman who wants one of the local food banks shut down. She thinks that the people who go there for food are either too lazy to work, drug addicts, Vietnam veterans, or mentally damaged. She is actively working on getting it closed. I can’t figure out what business this is of hers. Its not supported by tax dollars, other than being a non profit. But really, why put effort into this? I know she has a family and a life to take care of. She should be too busy minding her own affairs to attempt to deprive people she doesn’t know of a meal. And I bet she thinks she has an awesome reason for her actions. I don’t know what they are because I can’t discuss this with her, I’m afraid I might do her some ugly pyhsical harm. She needs to MIND HER OWN BUSINESS.
Just so you can test how needed this resolution is, spend the next few days really listening to other people and make a mental note of how many conversations are totally unnecessary because they are about someone minding someone else’s business. Or read the newspaper and take note of how many of the articles are about people not being able to mind their own business. This morning, our local paper contained four of them.
None of this would actually be a problem if Nosey People didn’t feel the need to impose their nosey nonsense on the rest of. Firebombing buildings, throwing millions of dollars behind defeating same sex marriage, personally depriving people of a needed meal, etc – its all just people not minding their own business.
The world would be a much better place if we all minded our own business a little bit more.
Today we received in the mail an invitation to a party given by a couple whom we consider acquaintances. They are basically pleasant people, and we have gone to parties at their home in the past. For this one, however, we plan to send our regrets.
It is for political purposes, this get-together, and the guest of honor is some fellow who is running for Congress. A lot of people we know give these parties, and they generally come with a catch–they want donations, or pledges. The people who go to these parties are the same people Ava has written about and they frankly make me sick. They talk at you, not to you, and they really don’t want to hear what you have to say in rebuttal, because their minds are closed to the reality of today’s world, and to the facts in evidence.
When I am around these people in public, as I frequently am a couple of days a week, and they start with their political blather, I will simply leave.
“If you are going to spoil this beautiful day with politics, I’m out of here,” I tell them.
I really don’t care what they think of me, and they know what I think of them, even without my having said anything. Because I can be fun to be around, sometimes they will actually change the subject and encourage me to stay.
Taken individually, these people are basically harmless, but there are SO MANY of them that they are becoming frightening. How can relatively intelligent people become so stupid when politics (or religion) are involved?
When my husband and I were first married, his family (Evangelicals, except for him.) came at me with religious fervor. I listened politely the first time, and the second time, but the third time I was ready for them with questions about their faith that they honestly could not answer, and they have left me alone for the last 25 years. They are nice to me, and friendly, but there is no more trying to convert me. Too bad the political maniacs aren’t as polite. At least the family Evangelicals listened to what I had to say, and were thoughtful. But these political types, well I just want to slap ‘um!