A Dip In The Sips of I Get...IT

I get why some people are not so excited about the holidays. My grandmother gave birth to a huge family. I have some of the BEST holiday memories as a child with Ms. Lula. Family and love is alleged to be the objective during the holiday seasons. I surmise in a perfect world we would all love stronger and harder 365 days of the year. Thank you to those who do! What if you don’t have a family member or sibling in the land of the living with you right now? What if your parents are deceased? I have a close friend who lost her mom years ago. She once told me the pain never goes away. Time does make it better to deal with. There are people in this complicated world that may be grieving around the holidays while you are gamboling to all the joy to the world. I think it is wonderful for you to engage in all the blessings you have in your life and with your family. Maybe we can learn not to dip into being so desensitized to what others may be going through in the holiday seasons. Take a sip in a few more hugs and warmth. I so get it!

I get why my granny Lula locked me and my marvelous big sister out of the house early in the morning. Ms. Lula was trying to teach her grandbabies a lesson. My sister and I were teenagers and we thought we could do what we wanted. My granny (Ms. Lula) cautioned us to come in the house at a respectable time when we would visit her on the weekends. We did not comply with her rules. One day we thought we were going to repeat our weekend ritual and she locked us out of her house. We slept on the front porch shoulder to shoulder, until about 5am then she let us in. We got it! We made sure we were in the house at a decent time after that incident! I get it! Ms. Lula wanted us to be young ladies. She had high expectations for us. Maybe it’s not a bad idea to take a sip of listening to your elders. She was so right! Thank you Ms. Lula!

I totally get why people share certain things with certain people and those who they do not share it with always seem to want to know the other person's business. Think about how you make others feel. If you are infamous for judging people and berating them about matters close to their heart, being aloof with you is warranted. Maybe you have to do an examination of sips on yourself to figure out why you are so overly concerned with other people’s business who do not wish to share it with you wittingly. I get it!

I get why there is an insurgence of unity with our youth (of all races) to protest against unfairness and injustice when it comes to issues that affect their lives. Their movement does not appear to be fugacious. History has proven that wrong never last for long. Ms. Lula (my granny) always avowed, you cannot make right into a wrong and you sure can’t make wrong into right. It is wrong or right; no intermediate. I applaud and stand in agreement with all those freedom fighters who participate in peaceful protest. When people are tired of something they tend to do something about it! I get it! Maybe as a society we can do our part to dip into huge sips of humanity by coming against all illegal injunctions when human beings are not treated justly! “Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest FOR rights.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What is it that you get? Do you allow understanding to slip by you with no evidence of empathy and sympathy attached to your humanity? Are you a person who is always so quick to judge, drowning in stereotypes with all of your lovely might? As my Lula (grandmother) use to say, keep on living, you'll get it. I pray that you will!