Motivational Mondays: Learning to Be Grateful for the Gifts of People You Might Not Like
I live in San Francisco, CA. My representative is Rep. Nancy Pelosi. A lot of good things and a lot of bad things happened in this town on her watch that I don't like. It has nothing to do with the national politics. I've just been around here 44 years and I know what she stood by and let happen -- even with all the influence of being Speaker of the House and able to do much more. I'm ready for a new representative, and I've voted to primary her several times -- to no avail. I've never voted for a Republican replacement, and even that doesn't matter, because she has just walked all over her opponents. She knows how to win. I don't have to like it. I have learned a higher level of gratitude because of it.
I walked into Presidio National Park to explore it for the first time to explore and find out all that was going on and saw this:
"With gratitude to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who rallied the United States Congress and the community to save the Presidio as a national park site. Her leadership has ensured it will be beautiful and open to all today, tomorrow, and forever."
I cannot gainsay that. Not at all.
The Presidio was a military base for a long time, built out with Fort Point and Fort Mason to protect the city from Confederate privateers who might have wanted to steal gold to finance the Confederacy in the 1860s. By the 1980s, when I was born, it was known that the Presidio was going to be closed as a military base, and no one knew it what it was going to be next.
Enter Rep. Nancy Pelosi. She got this part right.
It's Monday. Another week of dealing with work situations, another week of dealing with people that I don't like or people that I love and situations I don't like.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi's legacy now includes teaching me to find the reasons to be grateful for all those people and situations, and I guess I'm going to increase her legacy a little more by passing the lesson on as we all face Monday again -- not all situations and people will be pleasant, but we can be grateful for the blessings that may be hidden for us to find!
Beautifully said. That's right, we may not like some people or situations but when we look deeper we will definitely find something to be grateful for about them
DEFINITELY ... it is a part of a disciplined practice ... keeping an open mind and a grateful heart so one can be willing to consider people and situations with an eye to what is good in them. I will NEVER vote for Rep. Pelosi, but I have found the best part of her legacy, and am grateful for it.
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Thank you so much!
Gosh... a lonely, quiet place like that holds an echoing story.
Don't be fooled by my camera angles ... I focus on the nature, but Presidio National Park is bustling. I just tend to go where the people aren't!