One Stood Out

This past week I have caught myself “people watching” several times. Don’t look all “I wouldn’t do that!” You know you do. It usually doesn’t ends well of course. They walk on and I’m left wondering, “What in the world!”, or something to that effect. Some are just lost and wandering this world with no direction, and some are from great backgrounds, but choose to go their own way.



Last week in the mall I watched Girl 1 and Girl 2 enter and sit on one of the benches in the mall. They looked to be in their late teens and they were waiting for someone to arrive. A few minutes later two handsome young men walk up and Girl 1 introduces them to Girl 2. Being the intelligent person that I am, LOL, I realized that the one couple has set up this blind date for the second couple. Girl 2 tells her new male friend about herself and her church she attends. He tells about school and football stats and all that. They then begin to plan their afternoon, when out of nowhere, Girl 2’s new male friend let’s loose with the F word. Two more words and then the F word again. Instead of laughing nervously like most seem to do in those situations, the girl did something much different. She became my ‘HERO’ for the day. She looked at him and said, “I don’t talk like that and I don’t allow anyone to talk like that to me. “


Now, I have to sit there and pretend I have seen or heard nothing when I really want to jump and scream, “YOU GO GIRL!” She gave me so much hope for our future just by being that ONE that day.


I’ve also heard it said that they just can’t help saying those words because they hear them all of the time. My husband works with a warehouse full of men, and every other word out of most of their mouths is filth. My daddy was in the Navy and said that language was a big problem back then, but I NEVER heard him say any kind of curse word. My theory is if you can go in the military and be taught discipline, then coming out of the service and having the same discipline to avoid using those words should be no problem.


Young men and women need to have character and stop talking like thugs. You are our future!