Our actions speak louder than our words, but what about
what we don’t do? How does what we don’t do define who we are? Parker J.
Palmer asks you to complete the sentence: I would never _______. Now of course,
his intention was to bring some insight as to our personal compass, what makes
us perform the way we do.
In the spirit of the Holiday Season, let’s take a lighter
look at who we are over the next few, bustling with busy-ness days ahead.
There are some easy things we know about ourselves: I would never buy my partner a
new vacuum cleaner as a gift, I would never steal something from Chapters, I
would never butt into line at the movie theatre. But what about the more
difficult things that gnaw at us year after year during the holidays.
There’s often
the relative (because only a relative would dare do this, a friend would
never be invited back) who sits at the table and never gets up to help; the
family members that don’t volunteer to bring along a contribution to the meal,
or the person who more than drinks their fair share of a bottle. What do we do
about them, or rather what don’t we do about them?
