{"id":2893,"date":"2015-02-05T23:14:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T04:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2015-02-05T23:57:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T04:57:57","slug":"2893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"When you’re strange…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, someone asked me about a grammatical rule.\u00a0 It was actually, the most commonly made grammatical error in English.\u00a0 It’s the old …. ITS rules…..\u00a0 whether or not an apostrophe is needed in a particular sentence.<\/p>\n

But before I answered, I said… “Well, it’s the strangest thing.”<\/p>\n

What a thing to say!\u00a0\u00a0 Of course it ISN’T the strangest thing.\u00a0 The strangest thing might be Bigfoot, or Aliens in corn crops making freakish designs.\u00a0\u00a0 Or maybe even Chris Fultengocker, who was in my third grade class.\u00a0\u00a0 That kid was really weird.\u00a0 Perhaps we think snails are strange.\u00a0 Or ghosts.<\/p>\n

But there is not a Law of the Land in this matter.\u00a0 When it comes down to it, we all have different versions of what we consider “strange” or “normal.”\u00a0 Some people think that being Gay is strange.\u00a0 Other people find that the practice of Fundamental Christianity is weird.\u00a0 And still others think Sara Palin, Matthew McConaughey, or The Beetles are peculiar and strange.\u00a0\u00a0 Like I said, there is not a single answer.<\/p>\n

Yet.\u00a0\u00a0 How we respond to what seems “strange” to us is an entirely different matter.\u00a0 Just because we think playing Cribbage is cool, others may find it completely odd.\u00a0\u00a0 How we behave towards others, who believe differently than us…… is paramount.<\/p>\n

It is called a lot of things.\u00a0 The “go-to” phrase is “Accepting Diversity.”\u00a0 I call it being human.\u00a0 I don’t know anyone who is smart enough to know everything about everything.\u00a0 That would be like having a god among us.<\/p>\n

No.\u00a0 We are all humans.\u00a0 Each of us has our high and low points….. our gifts and our faults.\u00a0 With that being said….\u00a0 I am not sure it is right to hold judgement on others.<\/p>\n

Embrace the strange?\u00a0 Hug the Yeti?\u00a0 Not if you don’t want to.\u00a0 But I think we should, at the very least, offer respect and understanding toward others.\u00a0 I think in most cases…. that is how we expect others to treat us.<\/p>\n

Yes, I think that displaying compassion, understanding, and deference toward our fellow humans is the best thing we can do.<\/p>\n

Anything else….. would be…..just……\u00a0 strange.<\/p>\n

Or as the profound statement is going these days … ….\u00a0 “Be Together.\u00a0 Not Alike.”<\/p>\n

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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.\u00a0 —\u00a0 <\/span>Eckhart Tolle<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.\u00a0 —\u00a0 <\/span>George Orwell<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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