Walk A Mile in The Shoes of Those I Least Respect
I had spent a lifetime judging people that I knew nothing about. Before I had children I thought stay at home mothers were losers. I remember, as a teacher, really looking down on those mothers that came to my classroom. What did they do with their day?
Then I became a stay home mother and started looking down on mothers that chose to work because they loved their careers so much.
Before I had so many kids, I looked down on people with large families. When I had many children I thought about how little people with two children really knew about raising kids and how “overly special” they saw their two children.
But more than anything I was bothered by people like Hilary Clinton who stayed with their cheating husbands. I would never do that and I knew they had to be using their husbands for some reason. There could be no other reason to stay with a cheater.
Women who would stay with their cheating husbands were the doormats of the world. I looked down on them more than anyone.
I am humbled. I have turned into everyone I ever despised.
The reason I wanted Ben gone was because I didn’t want to be a doormat. I fought forgiviness for this reason.
My strong feelings about women like Hilary Clinton have changed. Maybe Hilary stayed with Bill Clinton because she loved him. Maybe she felt he was her soul mate.
Who am I to judge? Hilary Clinton is one of my least favorite people, but now I am now more like her than I ever thought I would be.
Everything I have ever felt strongly about has changed when I walked a mile in the shoes of those I least respect.
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