"But understand, you take me as I am"

Word of the day: Tolerance...

I work in a mainly woman dominated profession.. yes, you guessed it., I am a nurse.. So with that being said, you can imagine the amount of "BS' that comes with the territory. Now I have never been one to bad mouth or gossip about anyone. In all honesty, I feel like those two activities are a lot of energy and I am lazy. I don't want to have to look over my shoulder or find a secure.secluded area every time I want to say something.

Like any other environment, my floor has "clicks", now I hate to use that words being that we are all adults and such, but I am here to report, that never goes away, which is sad. In high school, I had my group of friend who I primarily hung out with, but I was friends with everyone. And that goes for me at work too. I have a certain group of kids that I hang out with, but I like everyone.

I find it funny, how even as adult women, we still have these clicks. I guess that is just human nature but I would like to think that as we group up, get married, and have kids of our own, we would realize that having these clicks doesn't make us a stronger unit.. it weakens us.

As I sit here and write this blog, I am thinking of the ladies I work with, and I can place each women in their perspective group and I am willing to bet it is the same group they were in in high school. The cool kids still think they are better than everyone and have the right to say whatever they want about other people without getting to know them. And the outcast, keep to themselves..

I feel bad for the "cool kids" because they are missing out on some really great people. They can't see past a weird personality trait or a conflicting attitude. They have found the other "cool kids" and are set. They never open themselves up to the possibility that someone different from them could be awesome like them. They just want to judge from what they see on the outside. I like to think that I am a very accepting person. I am not quick to judge. I take my time and get to know someone before I decide on the type of person they are.

I don't have a "type." If you were to meet my closest friends, you would see just how different they all are from each other.. But the one common trait that they all do have is TOLERANCE..