I'm on my three month break. I begin woring on my school stuff now though from home, ready for the upcoming year.
Fantastic Lago, that you have all this work coming in... I think there is still money around, despite the recession, just that people are wary of spending it.
Well, am not stretched thin, my kids are adults now. But am a parent. Not a great response I know. But you are right, burning oneself out is no good for the children.
Yep. I don't think it is about accepting other people, I think it is about understanding our own levels of what we find acceptable and within our tolerance levels. Accepting a person, despite what behaviours they may show, is something that I cannot accept. I have levels of tolerance and somethings I cannot tolerate. As you, I kick them to the curb. I am a forgiving person and alot of things I can forgive in the name of love, also if a person I love oversteps my levels of tolerance, then whether I allow them to recover and repair any damage is and will be only because I love them. And vice versa, if I have hurt a person I care deeply for, then I want to repair any damage I have done, but if I am not allowed to then I can't do much about it, apart from realise that I have overstepped their levels of tolerance.
Your last comment is a very important one, I think, and I don't disagree at all with your post. To come back to that, how much responsibility should one take? I take my responsibility as a citizen very highly. I stick to the law, I have a responsibility as a teacher to my students, their parents and soceity and I take that role very seriously. While I can evolve in my role, I have to fit into what my employers require from me and the parent's require for their child, while they have a responsibility to ensure their child is at school and fit and heatlhy and able to receive an education. I cannot run around stating 'Accept me or get lost, because I would be jeopardising all I have worked for and my children's lives too. Not to mention my home. I am nowhere to be popular, I have no wish to be popular and conform to certain cliques, groups so that I can be with the 'in' crowd, I just do not have that overwhelming desire wherever I am, if I like the people then I like them and if we want to spend time with each other, that will come naturally as human beings who bond. So I think we all have to conform and not always think that people should accept us, otherwise their would be no need for rules and we either stick to rules or we don't. I prefer to stick to rules, it makes life a hell of a lot easier for me. I find that easier as I age, because I am settled within my life, when I was younger, not so easy because I was trying to find my way in life, so sometimes I would push to the limit to see how far I could get. In some respects to get noticed and have attention. We like attention, it is in our make up to like it and want it and crave it, especially when we feel lonely.
So I think responsibility for how we behave, how we act, how we interact and how we contribute to soceity should be taken very seriously, having fun along the way. We all love fun.
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Gosh, I love social party conversations...Rock on sister! I like her already.