People Verses Road Maps

Morning everbody,and welcome to ole hillie's world. I your expecting a hopeful recipie today. Guess ya just might be on your own. I have quite a bit I wish to get out today, and will be plenty long and maybe to some if not most, very boring. Never the less, I feel it's a need to know basis, and for those that know ole hillie, I hant bout to let it go with out being said.

I hear way to often folks talking bad of other folks, making fun of some, and the likes of many things in this nature. Very seldom do we hear something real good of folks, yes there are some, wouldn't be right if I was to say there wern't. As my late granpappay use to say. "Lad,iffin ya hant got nuttin good ta speak of a person, then best ya speak nothing at all" That to me, was good sound advice coming from a very intellegent man. And just to think,he never had any schooling to speak of. So guess we don't really need much of an education to learn repsect for one another, nor to get out just what it is we are saying.

Now lets take a road map. We look for the straighest road there is to be had. Find one,and away we go down it. Now wait a minute, what in heck is this? That map didn't show all these curves and bends in the road. Now ask yourself, do I slow down for this obsticle, or do I keep pushing along.? Maybe ya might want to ask that feller upside down at the bottom of the cliff what he wished he had done. Now there's a sign ahead, (ROAD WORK AHEAD) and yet another one that has a pic of a man with a flag. Now that map didn't show any construction going on, nor there would be delays,maybe even detours. Do you get the picture of what I'm seting in front of you here?

Now lets take people. People are somewhat like a road map. In that you never know what you will run into un til you see it. People should never have to prove them selves worthy to be you friend. Nor should you need to just to be their friend as well. Friends are nothing more then these few things. TRUST, between 2 or more people, SHARING, maybe laughter, maybe lending a helping hand, maybe just feeling good about yourself as with them. WATCHING,wether it be over one another, or maybe to find better ways of doing things. MEETING, wether it's new friends, does it really matter if they are rich, poor, highly schooled,or barely none at all. Lets discuss this last part somewhat.

Lets first set the scene. Rich kid verses Poor kid. Rich kid,has more then likely never known what it was to do without, or to hear his or her parent say, "I don't have the money for it". So quite naturaly these same rich kids are going to pick on the poor ones. Rich kids,never had to learn how to fix things, or to make the best with what they had.. Where as a poorkid, he or she knows what it is to fix, and make do with what they have to do with. Now sooner or later in time, these same kids will be all grown up,and on their own. Yes more then likely have kids of their own. Catastrophy struck in the rich house hold. Lets say, their water heater quit working. So now it's sorry kids, we can't go to disney world this week end. A new water heater is needed. Now mind you, little rich boy, never had to do anything, nor learn how to fix anything either. So nateraly, a plummer has to be called to replace it. Who shows up at the door, but this same poor kid that was picked on so much in the past. First he checks out the unit, and finds only problem is a faulty element. Less then $20 bucks,maybe at best $50bucks to replace,or nothing if he did it himself. Oh I forgot,he didn't know how. So the poor kid, replaces the unit like asked to. Now with labor and price of it, over $1K. The poor kid takes his money and the old unit,smiling as he left. I wonder what he's going to do with it. Probably the same thing I would do, fix it and sell it to some other poor family with not much money for only a fraction more then he had into it. Whois laughing at who now? I wonder, is this a case where "what goes around, comes around?"

So guess what I'm telling ya all is, slow down when you meet a person. This same person could very well end up being your very best friend. Don't just keep moving at a fast pace. Slow down, that curve or bend could turn out to be your very best friend someday. Maybe even today. Lets not judge them because of the cloths they wear. It may be the best they have. So what if maybe they might be a little dirty. Just perhaps, got out of work, and instead of going home to shower and change, they decided to save that precious gas, just to get to work with tomorrer. And just maybe, that same person might just come and change your water heater in a day or so.

So now, if we still wish to talk bad of people, lets start with ourselves. Lord knows, there is plenty to talk about right there. As my most favorite movie. "Forest Gump" would say. "And that's all I got to say on this subject"

Tha"s bout it from this part of the world. Hope ya all have a very pleasent day, and put a smile on your lips,happy thoughts in your head, and a twinkle in your eye. Ole hillie loves ya all. Don't forget the 3 B's.