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5 Good Reasons to Mind Your Own Business
January 31, 2008 |
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There seems to be a lot of concern over what everyone else is doing these days. While it’s good to have something to take a stand on, it’s not always a good idea to use your position to point fingers. Here’s some reasons why it’d be more beneficial to shut up and mind your own damn business:
1. Faith and Beliefs
What’s real to you may not necessarily be real to someone else. Miracles, doctrine and dogma belong to those who believe in them. People from other persuasions can attest to their own miracles, doctrine and dogma just as honestly and heart-felt as you can. So revel in the knowledge that you’re doing what you can to appease your god with your own life, and let others do the same.
Just remember this, there are no directions in any written word coming down from any deity that requires anyone to force others to comply. The only directives ever given were to make disciples, that is convince others to come along willingly. Apart from that, if someone is doing something you don’t like and it doesn’t effect your person, walk away and kick the dust off your sandals.
You will not be held accountable for other people’s actions. If you feel compelled, say what you have to say and let others make their own choices. If you’re right and they’re wrong, your deity will reward you for trying. Apart from that, if your deity feels that strongly against something, let him or her deal with it.
2. Words
Terminology is verbalized thought. It can have different meanings and significance depending on who’s saying it.
Unless its a brand name, no word can be claimed ownership of even if its mentioned in some sacred writing.
For example, the word marriage basically means “a union.” Beyond that it takes on whatever meaning the user wishes it to. If it means something more specific to you, great! But no one else should be forced to see it that way.
So if someone wants to marry their teddy bear, shut up about it. No one’s forcing you to acknowledge the marriage. If they come to your house and introduce their teddy bear as their spouse, you have the right to ask them to go home. In doing so you uphold your concept of the word’s sanctity and you can sleep easy next to your deity approved spouse knowing Mr and Mrs Bear will never come back to upset your apple cart again.
But if you see them together on the street, leaving them alone won’t get you in any trouble, nor will it demean your meaning of the word.
3. Perception
Considering that all the wars and acts of terrorism are due to the two points above, wouldn’t it make more sense as an advocate for peace and love, if you stopped being so hell-bent adamant about things?
We live in a universe where perception is everything. What one might be sure of today could change tomorrow especially when one gets faced with a random yet drastic change. Refusing to do so will leave you shallow, bigoted, and more of the problem than the solution. Remember, staunch means stubborn and stubborn means pig-headed.
Smile and the world smiles with you, lighten up and the world will smile on its own.
4. Backfire
Now there’s no reason not to be an advocate of whatever you want, but when you go off attacking advocates of other whatevers you stand a chance of it all backfiring on you. If you represent something, you’d want to do so in the best light possible.
Just in saying, “I am this, or I am that,” you’re promoting and representing. This should never be taken lightly! Doing it in a fashion that pisses people off will not win them over. Rather you’ll be prompting a resistance movement against your cause.
Besides, if you feel the need to force people to see things your way, perhaps it isn’t such a good way in the first place. Insist on it anyway, and you’ve made some serious enemies.
Oh and if you insist on trying to force people, please don’t call it persecution. It’s not. People are just fed up with you trying to sink your hooks into them.
5. Bigger Fish
We all live here on this planet together. There’s plenty of stuff that really does effect us all that needs attending to like global warming, hunger, dirty politics, disease, etc. . If you have to make something your business, then why not help out there?
And if your leader, guru, deity, or shaman gets mad at you, just tell them I forced you into it!
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Hi Ken,
Well put and nicely said. That’s the real-life type of post I like to read. From the heart no-nonsense tell it like it is commentary.
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Brian
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Too many people are minding everyone else\’s these days.
So if someon…
We “ALL’ either have the 411, get the 411, or tell the 411,
Nosey/gossipers are on a very thin lines with each other, they almost compliment each other,
Nosey is a 2 fold method, being nosy, and inviting information, to make a person nosey to entertain ‘your’ affairs that may or may not involve them directly.
Nosy people tend to fail to see their place in life. Most of the nosy people may be and unsatisfied with their own lives. They prefer to violate everyone else’s rights to share there own business to folks, so they create to share it themselves.
When someone is being nosy, it can also be said that they are dipping and meddling in other peoples affairs. Fishing, and feeling out a conversation, normally its for sharing amongst other folks. Some people insist that nosy people are simply trying to connect and make conversation, maybe they are concerned, or perhaps they just nosey.
That said, privacy is important. We all have things we would rather keep to ourselves or share only with the special people in our lives, or don’t share it at all~ because ” a dog that bring a bone, takes a bone.
I’m not a nosey person, because I have to much of my own business to embrace,
Gossip, I catch myself when I do that, because I find myself gossiping to my husband at times, I have learned that’s a form of gossip also, I don’t believe you should share everything with your husband neither.
SO THE JUST OF IT, FOLKS DO NEED TO MIND THERE DAM BUSINESS,
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