Always drive with your angels! I say that to my kids every time they get in a car (or on a plane). Be careful on the road while driving, snippeteers.
Yet let's also be careful of this ... us doing the same thing for which we just berated someone else (in a car or not).
Example ... we holler inside our vehicles at the fool tailgating us on Interstate 95; then later as we're driving along - daydreaming - we suddenly realize WE are tailgating the car in front of us.
Why is it okay for us to tailgate, yet we get angry when it's done to us?
Example ... we know we can make that yellow light but ... oops! It turns red quickly and we run through it. "Oh well." Two days later, we're shaking our heads like Judgmental Judy at the cabbage-head who ran a red light as we slowed to a stop (ahem - the Miss Goody Two Shoes we are).
Why is it okay for us to run a red light (accidentally or not) yet we judge another driver for doing the same thing?
Example ... we request that a friend please take down that "horrid photo" of us on Instagram or Facebook. She thinks we are a ridiculous dumb-bell to even ask because ... "C'mon, you look fine!" Then a week later, we feel annoyed at a friend who asks us to remove an unflattering photo of herself while we don't understand why. ("C'mon, you look fine!")
Why is it okay for us to request something like this, yet not for someone to request it of us?
Example ... we're gathering with our group of hens, and somehow, the topic lands on another person who is not in the room. We all rattle on and on about something s/he did or said - and dang if it doesn't sound like gossip! Yet just last week, weren't we the hurt ones when we learned someone said a snarky something about us which was untrue?
Why is it okay for us to gossip yet we don't want others passing around rumors about ourselves?
Hearing this, snippeteers? Ringing a few bells? I so often find myself doing the exact thing after judging another person for doing it. I truly think it is The Universe's Way of shutting me up and teaching me a good lesson.
"When we do the same thing" she or he did ... it is not okay for us to have judged them.
What exact thing have you done to someone else after someone did it to you?
