I will not get into details here but I have been faced with several situations lately where the following has applied:
Just because I handled myself wrong doesn't mean I was wrong.
And in that thinking I am desperately trying to both handle myself well and be right... :o) Not really; but I am literally begging the question of which is better: Being right and proving it with pithy, sarcastic and/or snotty dialogue or handling myself with grace and class so that I am never thought a fool when I am wrong or thought immature in vindication.
But it is SO frustrating because so many people have the uncanny ability to abjectly disregard social awareness. AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO PUNCH MYSELF IN THE FACE!
Rude, lazy, filthy, crass, immoral, deplorable. Women who lie, cheat, and steal. Selfish women. Women who mistreat their husbands or boyfriends because they have been taught by society that it's not only funny but acceptable. It can all be too much for our sensibilities to bear!
I am not perfect. Not by any stretch of the imagination but I TRY. I try to maintain some modicum of ladylike-ness. I am horrified by women who don't have a desire to be somewhat socially aware.
Because being graceful is very often even sweeter than being right; it is nearly impossible to find fault in class. This is not to say we allow others to walk all over us. We find satisfaction in saying what needs to be said kindly and with love. We are not rugs!
So, this is for all the wonderful and socially aware women I know. Because we know that it is especially important in today's world to be what so many people are not. And because we have all known at least one female who takes us to the edge of our patience, wears our social graces to the breaking point, and tests our class to the point that we need a very good friend to tell us to calm ourselves, reach inside, and be the lovely person that is inside every careful woman.
Classy women never lose their dignity.
Stay classy. It really is important.
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