What did I learn this week?
I learned that sometimes the best thing to say in a situation is nothing.
This last week I went to do a talk about Clean Water Projects in Africa for a women's group. After I had finished talking, one of the ladies, in fact, the most elderly lady in the room, starting going on about how these African countries should stop relying on us for help and should just build a dam, because then they would have enough water.
I mean, seriously, there are SO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH THAT STATEMENT!
There were all sorts of things running through my head and I couldn't put anything coherent together, so I just let the leader of the group "rescue" me at that point.
Thinking about it afterwards, there were things I could have said, BUT I truly don't think any of them would have made her question her belief at all and that I did the best thing, SAY NOTHING!
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3 comments:
Oh it is SO hard to let others have their opinions sometimes when we can clearly see how wrong they are...ARGH!
Ahh...a lesson I need to learn many weeks! Sounds like you handled things well.
That's a hard lesson to learn, indeed. Glad you were able to let it go. UGH!
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