Your Thoughts

Hi!  I’m Ashley and I blog over at Dancing with Ashley.  There you’ll find pictures of outings with my cutie pie baby boys, a taste of my style in fashion and random thoughts about life.  I’m a southern girl all the way (born and raised in NC!) and would love to have you come and dance along with me!
Blazer: Lauren Conrad from Kohl’s,   Jeans: Gap,   Shoes and Necklace: Cousin Couture
A few weeks ago I was in an office and the receptionist was crazy rude.  Like, one of the meanest ladies I’ve ever met.  I was ready to get the heck out of there, when I saw a sign on her desk that said “Kindness is Contagious”.  It was too much for me to handle.  Way to practice what you preach.  She answered a call while she was checking me out and I heard her say with a tear in her eye, “Thank you so much for your condolences.”  Oh.  I immediately felt awful for having terrible thoughts about her.
 
I’ve also been on the other end of this type of situation.  I was at a meeting, with freshly painted nails, and a lady made a comment about how she only wished she had enough time to paint her nails because she had just recently had a baby and didn’t have time for anything else.  Weird comment in the first place, but little did she know that I had just been on bed rest from a miscarriage gone all kinds of wrong, and how I only wished I didn’t have “enough time” to paint my nails.  I wanted so badly to be in her position.
 
Anyways…the point is, you never know what’s going on with people.  So maybe we can be careful with our words….and our thoughts.
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Abby Smith

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6 thoughts on “Your Thoughts

  1. What a great post, I think we often have to remember how our words might affect others. I’m trying to remember this more and more, especially after doing so much customer service work. It can be easy to pass judgment.

  2. Really great post. It’s true that we really never know what’s going on behind someone’s day. Even though being rude isn’t acceptable, she apparently had a reason. When people have been rude to me in that situation, I have actually said to them as I was leaving “I hope your day gets better”. It always seems to kind of throw them off. I mean it sincerely, so it maybe makes them stop to think about their behavior too. 🙂

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