13/03/15

"Thanks, but Army Ranger or not, it doesn't matter. "Jobs" aren't worthy of respect, people are. Some jobs do tend to attract certain types of individuals, but for the most part I believe we should start with respect as the default setting and adjust it according to the individual. For example, someone might hold a job that many might consider falls on the lower end of the respect worthy scale...I don't know, say something like drive thru technician at McDonalds. Yet that individual may be impacting the world around him/her in a much more positive way than the rest of us. The job doesn't define him anymore than being a firefighter defines who I am. Hopefully I am judged not my my job title but on more tangible indicators of personality such as my desire to help others, and the desire I have to impact the lives of those around me in a positive way as I make my way through this brief existence."

-Random Redditor ([–]IFDRizz)

09/01/15

Not sure if I should file this under today, when the gravity of this quote really hit me, or 10/04/09, when the actual email was sent to me...
"aww ravi if i could analyse everything she ever said to you and give you a diagnosis on what she thought and a prognosis on where this is headed based on your current interactions then believe me i would... but people make throwaway comments all the time. and then there are those comments where you think about them beforehand so that they're loaded with meaning but people miss it because the meaning is buried too deeply, or people are just so used to only seeing the first layer that they forget there's a potential for a second one to exist."
-SR