Unfinished business / food for thought

Self effacing timidity v/s arrogant pride: If someone mocked the fundamental principles you lay for yourself in life, what would you do? Would you be the bigger person and turn the other cheek or dislocate your offender’s jaw? I really don’t believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I also believe that people don’t understand what they do to others until it is done unto them (to reverse the old saying). So, how would you non-violently teach your reprobate a lesson they’ll never forget?

Morality: I walk in to my grocery store religiously once every two weeks, and just as religiously I am greeted at the door by a little old lady who says “Welcome to Uncle Jack’s”. Sweet old woman, probably in her late 60s, stands at the door day in and day out. Her only job at the store is to greet the customers coming into / leaving the store. Chains of stores may call it ‘adding a personal touch’ or ‘making you feel at home while you shop with us’, but tell me something, if you were hosting a Christmas party at your home (irrespective of which hemisphere your home is in), would you put your little old grandma on a rocking chair on the front porch greeting the guests as they come in?

Ironies in life: Ever wondered how it all fits? At age three, you throw a fit when your father drives you to the pool to for swimming lessons. Fifteen years later your lessons earns you a scholarship to college. At age 10 you yell at your mother because she used the wrong setting on the iron for your favorite shirt. Eight years later in a college dorm you don’t understand how a tiny little red sock turned the entire load of white laundry pink.

The intention is not to portray an image of profoundness. These are just some random thought penned down before they dissipate into oblivion. Unfinished business or food for thought? You pick