Madness!

Ever let little things annoy you?     We all do it, it happens to the best of us, even those who have a "positive attitude" and a smile for everyone all the time.

I feel like that's how life has been for me lately.  Annoying.
Not my own life, but the people around me.

The littlest things can set me off.  Most of it is over the dumb things that people do -- or rather, don't do.  If you make a mess, clean it up.  Not half way, all the way.  I've always gone by the adage "Do it right the first time".  Just makes perfect sense to me.  It may take you a few moments, a few minutes, longer than you planned to do it, but in the end, it will pay off.   That's just my own personal credo, and I stick by it ..... most of the time.  lol  Yeah.  I'm human.

But the little annoying things that get under my skin at work -- they have no place being any source of irritation.  Why am I the person who can't just let things slide by???

I was pointing out things to someone today, and found myself wondering why I was bothering to explain.  I finally told myself (out loud, of course!) ... "lady, why bother, just keep your mouth shut" .  I'm sure the guy I was speaking to was looking at me kinda funny, having this convo with my own self, but sheesh.

Sometimes you have to wonder at the idiocy of some people.

Are we raising a generation of folks who only see things in the now, the current moment, with no regard to the future, to repercussions, to consequences?

At my BigBox facility, we promote recycling, and have several things in place to promote.  There's a special garbage can for aluminum, one for plastic bottles.  There's a place to recycle cardboard, styrofoam and plastics as well.  But rather than taking that extra step or two to put something in the right recycling facility, they just toss it all into one garbage bag.  When they do that, it cannot be recycled, no one wants to pick through another's garbage!

Truly a minor offense when you look at it through a time saving manner.  But the repercussions and consequences of overfilled landfills don't cross any of their minds.  Frankly, I'll probably be gone by the time these consequences roll around, but they will probably have to deal with it later in their own lives.

How do you get young people to see beyond the now?  beyond themselves?

And does worrying about the state of mind of the younger generations mean I'm old????

Just me, sounding off after a very tiring, unproductive day at work.
May tomorrow be filled with better moments :)