Staying out of the Weeds
What are the weeds? The weeds are that area in your workplace, life, gym, place of worship, or anywhere where humans reside where there is mess.
Mess. Drama. Theatrics. Gossip.
These things are prevalent in our society. This week there was chaos as my workplace. The bottomless pit of hell opened when someone made a judgement error which a lot of us thought was egregious. In that moment, when we all should have come together, it was suddenly every person for themselves. We were all quick to point the finger, gossip, group chat, and genuinely just act in ways that were extremely unhelpful.
As a leader in the space I should have been above such antics, but I wasn’t. I was falling into the energy of hate and anger that was justified but could have been utilized in a more helpful way.
Our society has become a mob. This mob mentality comes so quickly whenever someone makes a simple mistake. We all jump on one person and tear them apart like piranhas and then treat them like a social outcast, doomed to wear a sign of their ignorance for eternity. It’s really rather sad.
I see it happening currently with Will Smith. This man is one who was a black American icon. The majority of us quoted most…
