Indifference

   People in the United States, for the most part, try to remain indifferent on many issues.  I tend to think that this is nothing but apathy in its rawest form, but is this true?  Maybe not depending upon how you look at it.  If a person looks upon an immoral issue and express no concern they should be immediately branded as being indifferent to that issue.  Many times they are not.

  What happens for the most part is that many people do not feel you are being indifferent but difficult or that you have some reservations about a particular issue that you do not want aired out.   We fall under suspicion of our friends, family, and co-workers and get socially dissected under a very powerful microscope.  This happens because of two things.  One, people tend to feel most comfortable when someone is on their side.  Half of the reason most people even ask your opinion on a specific issue is because they believe for whatever reason that you are apt to be on their side.  Two, people are judgmental.  We all know the truth of this, even if  we do not want to admit it.   Have you ever been invited into a conversation with a group of people and the majority sided with you in your impartial views on a subject, yet that one person that disagrees with you gets an attitude and swears up and down that you have some reservations that you are not openly blurting out?  Sometimes that is true.  To be fair, we would be foolish to run head first into a conversation of chaos and confusion that we think would lead to a lot of hate and contention.  This does not mean that we should hold our tongue and walk on egg shells, I am simply saying we should think before we speak.  That is even becoming a problem with today's social networks looming over our every thought but that's another post for another time.

   When we are truly indifferent about issues we really need to check our reasoning just to be sure we are right in our decision on being indifferent.   Someone may say being indifferent is not a decision.  Well, okay, if you say so... but people would still say you were sycophant.  No one can be indifferent just for the sake of being indifferent.


   We should have answers for people who shove a camera in our face and ask us why we are attending rallies and demonstrations.  We have to be accountable to the words that we use.  We need to be accountable towards our motives and character as well as our actions.  Look at being indifferent as a small tear in your jeans, the more you wash those jeans the bigger the tear becomes until eventually everyone can see what is underneath the material.  This is when the conclusions are drawn.  Along with this comes the topic of discretion but that is another topic...

 

I love you all and keep you in my prayers as always...