different people do different things.

we were standing beside the dryer in gramma-bec's garage, so i know i was in preschool b/c we lived at gramma-bec's before we moved to the lake house, and we lived at the lake when i started the 1st grade. so, shaman & i were standing by the dryer, and i was relating some tiresome preschool drama of mistreatment. i don't remember the story, but i do remember that i was complaining about something somebody did to me. shaman's response was -- different people do different things. at 4 yrs old, i was struck by this truth. it is such a bedrock, duh-honkus truth that even a 4 yr old can understand it... yet, b/c of the nature of bedrock, duh-honkus truths, it is also something that i've carried with me my whole life.

different people do different things. well, of course they do. there is no getting around it, and if you just settle down and accept that right off the bat, you're free. different people do different things, so you do not have to judge them, nor accept them, nor understand them, nor change them. all you have to know is that you can expect others to behave differently from the way you behave. be prepared to hang onto your hat, go along for the ride... or not.

different people do different things. and, seeing as how you are a people, you can do different things, too. you can rise above, or sink below. you can choose a road less traveled. you are not bound by the strictures that bind others, because...

different people do different things.