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Reacting to
Complaints
I hear people complain when
it is “too cold”. I hear them complain
when it is “too hot”. You know something
like the “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” story where she had tried Papa and
Mama Bears porridge. But you seldom hear
people complain about the “Just Right” kind of weather… when it is not too hot nor
too cold.
These days in our part of
Canada it is just right – perfect actually!
A little while ago I was in
contact with a “Help Line” person that lived in Mumbai, India. He asked me how I was doing today. My response was, “I am too hot and the
weather is miserable. How about
you? What is the weather like where you
live?”
There was a stunned silence.
He had never been asked that kind of question before I guess… yet he did
finally say, “It is always hot. It is the same every day. It does not change.
This is India and we love it this way.”
The poor guy had never been
trained to complain about the weather. Only in Canada do we train our people to
complain about weather I guess.
What if… what we had was
always okay? What if we never complained
about what is happening and just enjoyed it… maybe we could always just be
thankful? What would change in our
world?
What if we would do that
just for one day? A “No Complaining Day”
– Hmmm?
My Mom is old now – very old. In her oldness she doesn’t like lots of
things. In fact in her oldness she tends to complain and not do some things
because of not liking things the way they are around her. I am pretty sure that
it comes with being 92… or it might have been there when she was younger and
never showed up until her age ripened to that “good old stage in life”.
It aint easy satisfying an
old person that is not happy with the way things are around her.
If it is too bright or too
dark it is not good. If it’s too hot or too cold it is not right. If it is too
hot and I open the windows to cool it down it is too windy. If it’s too fast
she wants it slower. If it’s too hurried
she wants us not to rush and moans when I “yell at her”(interpret that to mean
tell her what should be done next).
Do I sound like I am talking
poorly of my mother? Nope not at
all. Likely just being honest is not
something others have done when telling about their aging mothers! I am just being honest – honestly I am!
But it seems that
complaining can rub off on others around the one that is the complainer. It is
funny when that happens – but not if you are the one that the people are
complaining about.
Yesterday in Costco I met a
complainer that I have known for 15 years of living in Peterborough. She used
to attend the church that I Pastored… gulp I can say that I was her pastor. She
complained about lots back then and at times I was the target of her
complaints. (Oh boy bad memory time). I
had not seen her in about 11 years… and at that moment our carts bumped into
each other coming around a busy aisle.
She looked directly at me, her eyes fluttered slightly, no smile at all…
there was an immediate recognition… I grinned at her and she looked immediately
away. Oh boy… no change there!
I thought about my own
complaining… not my Mom’s, not the lady at Costco, but my own. I don’t want to be that way… or treat other
people or what they do as objects/targets of my complaints.
In a public bathroom I was
in I saw the toilet running over and beginning to fill the small room with some
fouls stuff floating. I told an employee of the predicament… and thanked them
for helping us all. The person smiled
and thank me.
What kind of a world would
we have if everyone stopped complaining?
Of for that day to come
soon.
BUT what will happen if
these people get to Heaven? And there is
nothing to complain about – what will they ever do? Can you imagine someone having enough nerve
to stand up to God and say boldly, “Excuse me SIR… I would like to inform you
that I don’t like the way this place is being run!”
But maybe complainers won’t
be there... ahem…
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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