(this post shouldn't even have to be written.)
i have a friend from college who disagrees with me on just about everything. we disagreed then, we disagree now. but he's nice about it and i'm nice about it and he can understand where i'm coming from (back when i was in college, everybody said "coming from") and i can understand where he's coming from and we get along fine. as kids in college today say........."it's all good."
on the other hand, i have a friend from high school who disagrees with me on just about everything. we disagreed then, we disagree now. but she's not nice about it which makes it harder for me to be nice about it but i try.
when i point out to her - nicely - that she's not nice about it, she gets less nice about it. it's kind of a dead-end street with us. there's just nowhere to go with someone who isn't nice about it and doesn't want to be.
both of these friends are well-educated from good schools. the first one went to wittenberg and the second one went to cornell. but their formal education has nothing to do with their souls. the first one has one and the second one, well i guess the second one has one, too - but it pains me to think about it.
it doesn't matter, people, how smart you are and what's on your resume. curriculum vitae. it doesn't matter who's following you on twitter. if you're like the grinch and you have garlic in your soul, you need to stop. right. there. put down your damned books. laptops. iPads. internet connections. whatever, whatever. look in the mirror, consider the feedback you're getting, and think. no............... feel.
i might cross over to your side, if you do.
i definitely won't if you don't.
think about that.
no..............feel.
