Something New Every Day

Stories and essays on identity, creative thought, and everyday common sense.

What are you inviting into your life?

“Woman tells the world through social media that a man in a bar called her an old hag.” The post included a picture of the woman in question.

Whether the story is real or not is something we’ll never know because only a fraction of the story was shared. However, as long as I’ve been around, strangers don’t insult each other personally in a public environment without being provoked.

I could use my imagination to create a number of scenes that could result in the woman being called an old hag, but, then again, so could everyone else. For all we know, they could be married. However, I can only think of one way that the scene could have been prevented, and that is to avoid personal interactions with strangers until they are no longer strangers. I can’t imagine a stranger replying to; it’s a lovely day, with, you’re an old hag.

I believe that nobody deserves to be personally insulted, but through actions of both people, that’s what happened. Neither of the two people are innocent in this situation because they both invited each other into each other’s world. I’ll leave you with one final thought.

One way or another, you have invited everything you have in your life into your life.


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