This day as I type, I recognize that I have a bunch of things floating in my head. What a timely word “floating” is considering the weather news all around the nation. There are two types of people in this world according to me. The kind who serve and the kind who think they deserve. The two kinds are despised by each other and yet it takes one to fulfill the needs of the other. Our own North Dakota floods have been a challenge for all of us. If it wasn’t a challenge for you then you either had a medical excuse or you thought you deserved not to help those attempting to save their properties and lively hoods.
I’m a networker. What news I don’t stay in touch with on my home computer I do from my cell phone. I’m forever exchanging information which, to me, is a necessity to my well-being. We live remotely and networking with people fills my basic need for socializing.
I especially enjoy researching different subjects where I can debate and at the same time stay informed on what’s going on in the world. The world is a very large and newsworthy place. There are some frightening things happening in places around this world. Some years ago there was nothing more fascinating and frightening to me in the news than the floods of North Dakota. I was on a website that had a forum in which we could discuss and debate. This forum is also a spectacular source of information.
I adore drinking in as much helpful information as I can. I never know when the knowledge I retain may just be the wisdom I need to save someone. In every debate there is an antagonist. I thrive battling antagonists. Antagonist are generally just a whole lot of hot air stuck in the body of a person who thinks they deserve something.
This man was on the forum spouting off about how he wasn’t going to help any of the people who bought the expensive, custom homes along the river in Fargo to sandbag. He wrote with the pain of anger in his strokes, “They can just move to their lake homes if they lose everything! I refuse to help anyone who has enough money to build a home like that! Why do they only show the sandbaggers building dikes for rich people?”
Now, it’s up to me which debates I want to take part in. My fingers couldn’t type fast enough to educate this man of his ignorant words. This man was not a server. He was the kind who thought he deserved. My advice to him was that he take just a minute to re-read his typed words and figure out how his statements could just be the very attitude holding him back from never having his own home on the river. If his attitude disrupts his ability to help someone in dire need, imagine what it holds him back from in his quest for any success in his daily routine. If “deservers” would just apply the words of the great philosopher, Albert Schweitzer, they might just learn to see the not-so-antagonist view on life. “The only ones among us who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
I was appalled by this man and yet I needed him in order to fulfill my own need to serve him. I wanted to use my words like a finger. I wanted to stick them in his leaking, emotional dike that burst into a deluge of his idea that he “deserved.” I think I lost that fight but I did sprinkle a seed that could just grow one day. Hope floats just like happiness does, if you serve instead of thinking you deserve. The real deservers are the people who serve and sacrifice, recognize and empathize. Servers unite. Keep giving, keep loving, keep seeking to see the need. In the end we’ll stand on an unbreached dike and claim victory at being truly happy!
This weather sure is strange. My newest wonder is if anybody is testing this soupy fog that has been going on for weeks. I wonder if they are testing it for things like heavy metals or chemicals that could be toxic to humans? But that’s just me and I’m a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist, so pay no mind unless you are, too!
The Blonde on the Prairie is a lover of ND. She is an author and motivational speaker, owner of “Monkey Balls” food truck and Joyologist to the elderly, the disabled and, now, also to children wherever she is needed.
