Saturday, February 7, 2009

Enough whining!

I do love my job and have exciting parts to it as well as challenges! I am finalizing the preparations for my first youth/parents meeting and am excited about the schedule and mission trips and service projects that are planned. I can't wait for the meeting. I hope it goes as well as I am excited about having it! Yeah!

Passive Aggressive Rudeness

Why is it that people feel that it is okay not to return phone calls, emails, facebook posts, etc? Is it the anonymity of the electronic medium? I spend so much time trying to stay in contact with people who just never respond. Often, when I see them in church on Sunday, they say nothing. If they would even try to justify their behavior by saying, "Oh, I meant to return your call/email/posting, but I just never got the time." I would be okay with that, but they don't. It seems to be okay to blow another person off if you do it electronically. As long as I don't actually catch you when I phone, then you are free to ignore me. Oh well, I guess I need to join the 21st century and just accept that people want to hear that I called/emailed/texted them and not be concerned with the fact that no content was ever exchanged. I guess it is more about trying than succeeding. It's about performing roles, not actually interacting. How sad.