Rainbows and unicorns

In all things, choose kindness.

Many times we are quick to get frustrated when someone is having a hard time understanding us. Or we are fast to make fun of someone that may not see things the way that we do. All that ends up being accomplished is you make someone like you less.

Yesterday I was trying out a new software platform that’s being built by a friend and former boss. I was trying to build a site to use for my new job. I was emailing the project manager and asking questions because it wasn’t intuitive on what I needed to do, things didn’t make sense to me.

This person proceeds to say something along the lines of “well did you just scroll down? LOL, that option is there.” They made me feel stupid. Therefore the remainder of our interactions yesterday had tones of frustration and misunderstanding. I read the last email they sent me yesterday after I had already left the office. Yes, it still reads like they are frustrated by my misunderstanding of things (evidenced by the fact that I suggested that they provide a tutorial for a user’s first time on the custom content builder and they replied with “The tutorial is def a must.” ) They might have been agreeing with me there, but it reads like “of course we need one for idiots like you.” (They didn’t say it in those words but given our interactions throughout the day yesterday, that’s how it felt.)

Today is a new day. A new opportunity to do well and be successful and KIND.

Have a nice day, everyone.