Ignorance, Apathy, & Dishonesty November 30, 2010
Posted by nrhatch in Happiness, Humor, Mindfulness.trackback
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Conditioned to please
we bend the truth to suit our
listener’s deaf ears
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Maybe if we were all a bit more honest, people would actually tune in and hear what we are saying.
People are unhappy because they aren’t being truthful with themselves. Being truthful with yourself plugs you into your inner power. ~ Suze Orman
When you stop hiding who you are, you have more energy to become more fully who you want to be.
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Spirit Lights The Way 
I love the comic!
Fitz is FUNNY!
More cartoons on Apathy:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Cartoon+apathy&form=QBIR&qs=n&sk=#
Lovely! That’s how I wanted my first day of December to start. 😉
-BrownEyed
Yay!
I found this graphic some time ago, and loved it. This morning, the Lindbergh quote landed in my in-box.
Pithy quote from AML! I know I’ve seen that cartoon before but don’t know where or when – in other words, “I don’t know and I don’t care!” Anyway I love it!
As a side note, I rode the train to NYC one day with Charles Lindbergh. I recognized him, but said nothing. He was very quiet and I didn’t feel I should intrude on his silence. I smiled, he nodded. That was it. It was about a year before he died. He had a home in Connecticut. Pan Am was still around and he served as a consultant for them. He lived in Hawaii I believe though.
I’m sorry. I find that hard to believe ~ not that you rode the train with CL . . . but that you maintained your SILENCE.
You, who have so much to say??? 😉
Glad you enjoyed!
Bwahaha! Yeah – actually, in person I can be quite shy and retiring. Probably why I write – to get my verbal rocks off! However, once I get started talking, there is no shutting me up! (Now you’re surprised, right?)
Another side note: I feel I probably behaved properly with CAL, however, my sister-in-law’s sister was a true “bone head.” She had the privilege of sitting right next to Jackie Onassis in first class on a NY-LA flight once. JO was very friendly, and she and Melanie chatted about all sorts of things. everything was going along just fine when Melanie suddenly said (God I can’t believe she did this!). “So what do you think of the movie ‘JFK?'” This was shortly after Oliver Stone’s movie had come out. JO turned away without comment, and did not speak to Melanie again. Small wonder.
At least I showed some tasteful restraint! I could have said something like, “Do you think you’ll ever find your baby son’s body? Or, “Do you think Hauptmann really did it?” or, “Do you think your son’s alive somewhere?”
See? I could have talked if I’d wanted to! 😀
Melanie’s faux pas is something I could see myself saying . . . especially if the movie had just come out. 😦
We have a woman behaving with extreme duplicity on another blog forum, I wish she would be directed to read this post 😦
LMAO at Paula!
As the Three Stooges might say:
Duplicity, eh?
Lemme at ‘er! 😉
I took a day off from work last week because of “illness & fatigue” … yep, I was “sick & tired” of the place!
— Judson
Love it! 🙂
That cartoon was so funny…I hadn’t seen that one before. Thanks for the laugh!
Glad you enjoyed, Janna. Thanks for swinging by.
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“When you stop hiding who you are, you have more energy to become more fully who you want to be.” A thought to ponder. I may be misinterpreting this, but I find that sometimes it is a good idea for me to hide who I am in order to maintain expectated decorum. If I didn’t, people’s mouths may drop to the floor and their heads spin not knowing what to do. I’ll peek out a bit from hiding in these situations sometimes- only as much as I think they can handle. It’s for their own good, you see 🙂
Some people spend their entire lives “hiding” their heart’s desires from those who profess to love them. They become lawyers (when then want to be architects), or bankers (when they want to write, paint, sing, or dance), etc.
We can suit “them” or suit ourselves.
More and more I choose to be me . . . and leave “them” to pick their mouths up off the floor. 🙂