My wife works in retail in the Phoenix area. Since she has been doing that I have wondered many times what could be the reason that so many of the customers she deals with seem to be so unhappy. Many times customers even seem to go out of their way to approach my wife, or others she works with, just to insult them.
My wife is a beautiful, kind lady. She works in a cometics area most of the time. Yesterday a customer actually walked up to my wife to tell her, "You would think this place would put someone in the cosmetics area that was at least half way pretty." It was not a joke. Insulting someone does not even seem to faze some people. Many seem to enjoy doing it. This is not unusual behavior! Customers insult or engage my wife, and others that she works with, into arguments many times a day. Many times my wife has come home from work sad and upset from the way people treat each other. Why do so many people seem to enjoy causing unhappiness for people they come into contact with? Maybe people just do not realize how they cause others to feel.
I have thought many times that part of the reason could be that so many people living in the area are walled in. There are no neighbors, or none that we know because just like us, they too want little contact with people. They too are walled in.
People seem to not know how to be freindly any more. People want so little contact with even their own neighbors that living behind our safe little walls makes so many seem to be happily unhappy. Even if my wife was not as pretty as she is what would possess someone to aproach her at work only to stab an insult into her heart? C'mon people. Why are so many of us so unkind? What happened to being good to each other? My wife is very classy, and very polite. She is not allowed to engage customers, even those that enjoy tossing insults her way. Does this give wacko people some sort of thrill? Do the walls we all live behind cause us to not consider how we make people we come into contact with feel?
How many people reading this would like to come on a journey with me? I would like to experiment with this. I would like to see what the trill is that comes from being an a-hole. On our journey maybe we'll walk around downtown going up into high rise buildings to go from office to office. We'll walk up to people sitting behind desks, give them a dirty look, insult them, and flip them off, then just walk out leaving them to wonder the same things I wonder. Has everyone forgetten that we are all people? What do the walls have to do with how we behave? Is it the walls that cause us to have forgotten how to be kind?
