To person that left this on my car last week at Mitcham Shopping Centre - I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when I was 35. Not just MS but the worst one that never goes away and is slowly crippling my life. My kids have had to deal with things that kids shouldn't ever have to deal with and all of our futures are forever changed. On the day you saw me I was having a good day, I was walking with my daughter unaided having a nice day. Thank you for ruining that. You made me feel like people were looking at me, the exact way I feel when I can't walk properly. I am sick of people like yourself abusing me on my good days for using a facility I am entitled to. A disability doesn't always mean a person has to be wheelchair bound but lucky for you I one day will be. Right now my focus is to walk into my best friends wedding next September and not have to be pushed. I will be 42. Before you ruin another persons day remember you don't know everything and just because you can't see it it doesn't mean a person isn't struggling to put one foot in front of the other.-shared on Facebook by Justine Van Den Borne
I hate how people judge when they don't know the truth. They need to stay out of other people's business. How awesome that she was having a good day!
ReplyDeleteAwesome indeed Debby.
DeleteThis is just a more obvious subset of the spiritual disability of judgementalism. I would rather have the physical disability(s) I have, then to have that (which I once did and think most still do, just to a lesser or greater degree). Progress not perfection is the key- and that by daily spiritual exercise of some form.
Delete"Progress not perfection" - well put Corey!
DeletePeople judge because they are feeling judged. If I could control what other people do I would make them be kind, but I can't. All I can control is what I think and do and how I respond to other's and their actions. And that is all. I have to keep reminding myself of this every day. Valerie....don't give your power away. When I get angry over anything.....I weaken my body,mind and spirit and then I can't send my love out into the world.......... I have to remind myself of that every day........
ReplyDeleteI can't ruin another persons day.....It is not in me to try..........but if it were....I would hope that they would not give me that much power!
A rose called by another name is still.....A ROSE.................you can also judge it and it still remains A ROSE.
Good stuff Valerie. I do not know Valerie but I imagine that she would agree with you.
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