Quote:
Originally posted by DELTABRAT:
I reflected on my own upbringing and realized that I have a lot of the same "qualities" of upbringing as many of you. The difference (well maybe not) is that I never cared to really talk about them.
I can admit that some of the posts were real self-degrading (at least they sounded that way) with the curled up toes and what not but I think that Beauty just basically pissed folx off to the point where they were ready and willing to tell her to kiss off!
|
Deltabrat pretty much said what I have been thinking all this time.
Anyone that knows about my upbringing knows that I am a very lucky person. I grew up with alot of privileges, but not everyone around me was that way. Even when I was younger I knew not to go flouncing into to school telling everyone how I had spent the weekend in a suite overlooking the NC shore just because I was accepted into the “Talented and Gifted” Program.
My mother always taught me that attempting to brag about what we were blessed with to random people was tasteless and a sign of bad up-bringing (or no upbringing at all). That might insult some people, but those was the rules that we lived by in my home and in my community. You just didn't BOAST. I still can't stand people that do that today.
This whole thread reminds me of how I was helping my boss with finances and a women comes up in this huge fur coat. She was clucking to one of the other employees about how this was the third fur her husband bought her, how she had a house in Florida, and how that fat rock on her was bought just because she felt like it. Let me remind you that this lady was a total stranger to us all. Needless to say when she left everyone was laughing at her because she looked like a fool spouting of like that. You could tell that she had no idea about DISCRETION when it came to her wealth and personal life. There is a way to tell people things, and obviously she didn’t know it.
The next lady came in was wearing a St. John suit and Salvatore Ferragamo shoes. Her whole outfit probably cost in the neighborhood of $1500 (not counting the rock on HER finger). Let me tell you, this women was sophisticated and discreet. You could see she was used to living a certain way...she didn’t have to go on and on about it because you could see it from the way she was.
What’s my point?
Well, that’s fine if you were spoiled (hell, Pop was too), but I think to sit here in reveal in your own upbringing the way some (NOT ALL) of you have done is TASTELESS. It’s fine to say “I have high standards, I want certain things from certain people, I want certain things from life” because anyone with any self-respect does that. But the WAY some things were put was quite irritating, and maybe that’s why some people balked when they saw it.
God help me, I didn’t mean to offend anyone, but I had to speak my mind.
Peace and blessings...sorry so long.