Monday, October 6, 2008

Why Do Adults Act Like Children?

I am searching for a good answer... Why do adults act like children? I sometimes feel that the people I work with haven't gotten out of high school! I am the youngest person in my office but at times I feel like I am hearing conversations that would no doubt take place in a junior high or high school hallway. The cutting words that drip from our mouths. This perplexes me even more because we all claim to be "Christians"! Not that Christians are not human and not that we don't still sin but how can we proclaim to be followers of the Almighty God yet we constantly fall to this nature. Why do we not strive to look past it? Do we really not like each other so much that we are willing to talk behind each others backs and ridicule how others conduct themselves in the workplace? How can it go so far that another person's things are flung around because one person is not in a good mood?

I truly believe that if Jesus Christ were to walk into my workplace that He would be far more disappointed in the way myself and my coworkers are acting than He would be with the person that doesn't proclaim to rely upon anyone but themselves. How have we come to that point?

I am starting a mission...
I will not allow others to steal my good day from me.
I will not agree with others when they talk about how much they dislike another coworker.
I will look beyond the exterior and seek to see what is really going on.
I will do what I can to relieve tensions.
I will not get caught up in the whirlwind that is gossip.