The whole world is moving but I'm standing still

The phrase, “because I said so”, has never really set well with me and I would imagine it probably hasn’t ever really set well with anyone on the receiving end of the statement. Because it is pushy, it is arrogant, and it presumes that the receiver is lesser than the person making the statement. Saying, “because I said so”, tells me one thing above all others things it says it that you don’t really have a legitimate reason for your position and don’t have the ammunition to debate the issue, or at the very least it is the blind unyielding support of the status quo. As someone who sometimes puts words together about things that I think and puts them out in the world there are things I have said which others have not agreed with, all I can say is we won’t always agree. There are more than a few things which have made people very upset with me and I have been told in no uncertain terms what I could do, with what and how often it should be done or that I should take up residence with an address much closer to hell because of something I’ve said. You are entitled to be upset but so am I about what ever it was or is. That said I do a lot of self censoring, there are a lot of things I don’t ever write about at least not for public consumption for a number of reasons. One it is private, another is that it isn’t really my story but someone else’s story and I was only an observer to the story, other reasons relate to it has to do with my jobs. Usually the last thing is the thing that keeps most of the things that I experience out of what I write about not because it isn’t interesting, quiet the opposite it is very interesting but it isn’t for me to talk about in detail in a public forum or at least that is my belief. Self censorship has kept me from writing about my thoughts about issues related to my work as well partly because others feel it is their right to tell people what they can or can not think. They will say they are not telling you can’t think a thing but are only concerned with that you have written what you thought and that is the real issue. Say what you want it is difficult for me to see how the censorship of writing and the censorship of thinking as complete separate agendas. Sure there are ideas and beliefs people have which I feel are uninformed and wonder why anyone could think such a thing. However, I know others also think the same thing about beliefs I hold. I am not any more right than them and vice versa. I know this because I’ve had conversations concerning the topics where I hold differing beliefs from others. I haven’t written about them but certainly I should be permitted to write about those things if I choose to. I don’t because what I feel about it is only for me and it only impacts how I choose to live my life and if someone else doesn’t think what I think I let them think what they want to think and believe. More importantly I let them live how hey want, as long as it does not impact my life. Critically assessing that what anyone says away from their work and that it may or may not impact their ability to do their work is absurd, especially if there is not evidence or incidents to support that the person has let there beliefs impact their work. However, there are incidents where someone has been let go from a job because of something they said away from their work and someone at their work saw it, read it, or heard it, and decided that it wasn’t right. Why? “Because I said so”, is generally the answer with no other supporting reasons ever given. We are not all same thinking automatons, we disagree and none of us has ownership of the truth or what is right or wrong. If what you believe gets you through the day so be it, let others believe what gets them through the day. If they sometimes have to say something you don’t agree with to get through the day what does it really hurt and mostly who really pays attention to what any of us have to say anyway. Ultimately what is so drastically important today will not matter a bit a week from now and in 50 years will have no significance what so ever. Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Today’s title from: The world spins madly on by the Weepies Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015