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Manic,

Thanks for reading. Yep, there are some colourful characters out there! I guess the differences in us all makes life interesting, though some are harder to deal with than others.

posted by word.smith on August 21, 2006 at 5:41 AM | link to this | reply

I Hear Ya

I totally understand where you're coming from. I work with some very "colorful" characters myself. At least they give us something to talk about right?

posted by manicmisfit17 on August 20, 2006 at 8:40 PM | link to this | reply

Amen to that Blanche,

Our soul is all that matters in the end!

posted by word.smith on August 20, 2006 at 6:00 PM | link to this | reply

Cee, insightful comments there.

I agree that there are reserved persons who come across as snooty, but this guy I had to deal with yesterday, he's a diffcult one!

posted by word.smith on August 20, 2006 at 5:59 PM | link to this | reply

Word, exactly my point. The older I get, the less I care about postion,

and rank, in a company or in life in general. Because most of the supposed movers and shakers who try so hard to impress people with a rude attitude, aren't all that, even in terms of money and power.

I've met genuinely nice people with money and power, working in a law firm, it into perspective, that there always people with more and who want more than what they have, who seem to feel that by belittling someone else, they make themselves taller. They're wrong. In the grand scheme of things, as you pointed out, we're all dust in the wind, and you can't take it with you, so all that matters is your soul anyway.

posted by Blanche. on August 20, 2006 at 4:22 PM | link to this | reply

Be a first-smiler!

So many people live in fear and so many times it comes across as snottiness and snootiness. They are afraid to smile and say hello; they fear rejection; they fear judgement; they are not sure of themselves and unfortunately, they project the wrong impression. I have tried to get that across point to my daughter her whole life; she's one to make a snap judgement. She almost missed on a great friend. They thought each was stuck-up and I said what I did above. The next day, my daughter started a conversation and boom -- they have been friends since. Approach one with love instead of fear and what a difference it makes to YOUR life!
OK, I'll step off my soap box now!
Cee

posted by LadyCeeMarie on August 20, 2006 at 4:20 PM | link to this | reply

word

As long as you can recognize an a**hole, word, you won't become one.

posted by johnmacnab on August 20, 2006 at 4:15 PM | link to this | reply

Blanche, agreed.

The self-important people I come across are those who do not make much of a meaningful contribution to society. They may hold an important position within a company, but to my mind, these are not the things that matter. I would be disappointed to know that when I die, what I leave behind is the legacy of being an a**hole.

posted by word.smith on August 20, 2006 at 5:53 AM | link to this | reply

Word.smith, It's always amazed me that the people who have the least reason

to be self-important are the ones who are, based on no particular criteria. Aside from the realization, that most of us are two paychecks away from the homelessness, everything that I've read about people like Albert Einstein and others who've done great things, are aware that in the scheme of things, even they've barely scratched the surface of all that there is to know, to be and to do, and that life is too short and too tenuous to treat anyone that way.

I had a woman stop and talk to me today, tell me how different it is here than it is where she is from, in Chicago, and seemed grateful to be in a cooler city. It's a difference in perspective, and you're right, I have no time for a88holes either, and I have short tolerance for them.anywhere.

posted by Blanche. on August 19, 2006 at 7:35 PM | link to this | reply