Five Things I Hate

·         * Public Body Image

·         * Goldfish

·         * Internal Dissention

·         * Hindsight

·         * Abuse

Internal Dissention – the fancy way of saying bickering among the ranks.  Squabbling within the family.  Fighting within the church.  And I absolutely hate it.  I hate when a unit is torn apart because of petty differences; petty differences that could be solved so easily if we would just put aside our pride and arrogance. 

We end up hurting ourselves when we let pride win.  When we pollute our surroundings by our own spite – then we pollute the very air that we must breathe.  We damage ourselves by doing this.  But damaging ourselves is a big part of life, people do it every day.  I’m not saying that I agree with it, it’s always going to happen though.  But when we cannot put aside small differences, then we damage our cause.  Entire regimes have fallen because of the things people could not let go.  Regimes crash every other year though.  What about families?  Those smash every day, every second.  Yet people cannot let go of their irreconcilable differences to save the youth of their child, or the peace of themselves. 

Not all dissention is bad – not every fight can, or should, be avoided.  But when we decide that our own pride is more important than the cause of our loved ones, or our country men – then we make the decision that we are the most important person in our lives.  And when we decide that we are the most important person, we resign ourselves to life-long misery.