There was a lesson at church today about compassion, bearing one another's burdens, comforting those who need comfort... I sat there feeling a bit guilty. Not too guilty, mind you. I'm far too aloof to really get down. But yeah, guilty because I have this personality (dang personality of which I have no power over...) where I am somewhat oblivious to the needs of others until they are directly in front of me. Even then I tend to avoid acknowledgement...
I see it as a bitter sweet quality. I don't like meddling in other people's business (good thing) to the point of seemingly not caring (bad thing). I'd like to have this silent agreement with everybody- I won't throw my junk at you, you don't throw yours ...and then we'll go to TacoBell.
That's a glorious friendship, right there.
I mean, I'm not totally unreceptive to other's needs. I would just like to deal with it, move on, and pretend like nothing was ever ever wrong and we're all happy and nobody is bad and netflix is a good use of time and TacoBell is just down the street.
But I like living in oblivion. It's easy to like people when I don't get ruffled easily. My power of everything-is-fine-therefore-I-can-be-lazy works well to keep me on the sidelines of drama.
But really, this is not what the lesson was about. Was it? Yes, I'm laid back and that's nice but how many times have I neglected people that need me? How can I serve when I have NO IDEA what/who needs serving???
...Have my kids had baths today?
Can I be compassionate when avoidance is something I do so well? Do I really understand what it means to mourn with those who mourn?
When I'm sitting in church and the teacher is talking about the beauty of loving service I'm nodding and thinking "wait, someone is in need of a homecooked meal???"
Good grief. Here I am, talking about serious, christian values, and I have to counter it with things that make me snort.
Avoiding a real serious talk, are we Lindsay?
I'm sorry, I was thinking about that lesson, and how I can do better, maybe. How I should pay more attention to things outside of my bubble and do some good once in a while... Then I thought about IT Crowd, and what a funny show it is.
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Oh Lindsay, I totally hear you about the whole just being oblivious so many times? And then like later people talk about how something awful just happened and I'm like what? Other times it's like there's a deal going on with the [Gertruide] side and the [Evenruide] and I'm like dude I thought Gertie and Evie were friends, and I like them both, and yeah, why don't we just all go down to taco bell and get some of those crunchy cinnamon deals? Anyway, there's my rambly comment to say, yeah I totally get the fire burning video, yeah this was a good one. I love everyone, but sometimes, I just ya know didn't know or catch the need until it just happens to be in a ball of flame somewhere and I'm like, so and so is sick?
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