I had some good conversations with various folk yesterday - was far too tired to go out for longer than 30 mins in the evening tho so not exactly sure when I'll be doing all my follow up visits.
I felt I shot myself in the foot at one point tho. One man told me he had a policy of never giving at the door. Wanting to affirm him in his decision, what came out of my mouth was "I think that's a very good policy" which kind of invalidated my day's activity. What I wish I'd warmly said was "I understand that policy and should you want to donate online or over the phone the details are all on the envelope". Who amongst us has not at some point thought of a better response after the event?
My message for today is this:
"Never put the keys to your happiness in someone else's pocket"
It's really hard when the happiness of those closest to us is so important to us. I know I'll be working hard on this today - if I get deeper insight as to how it's possible, I will share!
It's my son's SATS week this week and I'm trying to keep things running smoothly. I quite liked the buzz of exams when I was younger, maybe cos I often did well in them. I've been remembering tho how hopeless I was at General Knowledge - at primary school each year we had an exam in this and I would get a low score as I didn't watch the news and never knew who the Russian leader was. I still neither watch the news nor know the names of pretty much any "leader". I wondered if that was, and is, defiance as to who we see has power and importance? So yesterday I learned the name of someone who invited me in to see the changes they've made to the house so that her ill husband can now sleep downstairs. That's not going to be in any exam but I believe has more significance in my life than the name of any politician.
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