Prompt: Have you ever spoken up when you saw something going on what was wrong? Were you scared? What ended up happening?

Yikes!

I’ve, like many of you, seen many a thing that is not right.  But what have I done about it?  That’s a god question.  Since you never know how people are going to react when you say something, that makes me very trepidatious, at least at the age I am at.  While I don’t mind a good argument, I’m not looking for a fight.

Once, when I was much younger, I was watching a movie and some teens were in the back row of the theater and they were all chatty and boisterous, while the movie was going.  That irked me, so I mustered up my gumption, walked back there and told them to “shut up” and some other choice words.   Thankfully, they did and I was able to enjoy the remainder of the movie.  While it doesn’t fit the parameters of the prompt, it’s a beginning.

There’s lots of little things; kids running in church, kids running around a store, people walking away from a shopping cart with a child that thinks its a jungle gym, people that cut in lines while at a self-check out, or basically anywhere…  there are bunches of them.  Do I always correct them?  Well, I remember what it’s like to be a new mom and I didn’t like it when people interfered with my parenting of my children, so I don’t do that.  BUT, if the child is in danger, I absolutely intervene.   If someone isn’t aware of where the end of the line is, I’m fine to point it out.

I can’t think of any big instances of injustice or wrong-doing that I stepped in the middle of.  Would I?  Well, yes.  Of course I would.  It’s just not a common-place thing for me to see things like this happen.   I certainly sound sheltered, don’t I?  Honestly, I think it’s more of how I see the world.  I look for the good in people, the good in the world.  So it only makes sense, that from my perspective, things a good, people are good.

I may have on rose-colored glasses, but I prefer the good over the bad any day of the week.