The Vulnerable…

Mahamat Gandhi is said to have coined the phrase “a society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members.” I know this phrase. I love this phrase. Why then was I troubled by a seemingly unhoused person sitting near me at the coffee shop. To the point of even thinking, “should have gone to the bougier shop.” It was not fear. It was not social anxiety. It was that, based on nothing, I concluded he’d not be a good coffee shop mate. Shame on me.

Truth is, I am not as advanced as I like to think. I am filled with clichés and prejudices. I HATE arrogance but as it turns out I can be conceited, too. To err is human but to be so laxed in error, to the point we never auto correct, THAT is the problem. God help us all.

Love,