Bubbie’s sister, Carrie, stopped by for a cup-a-Joe and a visit and told him about having some work done on her home. She was having a new shower installed and was very pleased with the way that it was turning out. In the course of the conversation she talked about how certain friends of hers always have a comment that goes something like, “That’s a very nice shower, but I would have done this to make it just a little bit better.” Bubbie sympathized with her realizing that he discounts those types as friends, well, true friends anyway. You know the type, always chipping away at one’s joy with “helpful” comments about how one could do something better. After considering it even more he realized that that is why he doesn’t have more true friends, because no one can ever just say, “That’s great, I’m happy for you,” and leave it at that. A true friend doesn’t try to improve you or question your tastes, they accept that the things you do and the way that you do them are right for you.
Bubbie turned that around and looked at himself; does he bite his tongue for the sake of harmony? Does he try to impose his sense of the “right way”? Bubbie is human and we all do it, but over the course of a lifetime he has learned that in the choice to be right or kind, always choose kind.
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