Abuse of authority.

My son and I went to a college football game this afternoon.  The crowd was over 90,000.  As we were leaving we were following the masses to where we had parked.  We were pretty close to the stadium so the crowds were still pretty large.  A caravan of 2 police motorcycles and 2 police cars and several unmarked vehicles were coming up behind the masses so the masses veered right to get out of their way.  A police man walked up to my son and I and hatefully explained to us that we could just turn ourselves around and go the other way.

Now, I'm a pretty easy going individual and it is my life's work to make all people better off when they leave me than they were when they first came to me but this guy was a piece of work.  He had obviously had a bad day and I was an easy target.

The only problem was the way I needed to go was the way I was going and I had to get to my car.

So, I am trying to get an explanation and he is just getting madder and madder and I am genuinely just trying to be kind and get help for an acceptable path to my car.  There were no signs blocking the way there were even other game goers going in the direction that I was needing to go.  So, why did he single me out?  Who knows.

That's just it there isn't always a reason for why you get the short end of the stick.  Sometimes life just stinks and that is all there is to it.  You just have to know when to back down else you end up in a world of hurt because this particular gentleman could have decided that I was being a nuisance to society and thrown me in jail for nothing and it would be his word against mine.

This situation has made me more sensitive to other situations where individuals are put under authority. Take teachers for instance.  Most are good and excellent but if you get a bad one that has an ax to grind and you just so happen to be the flavor of the day, well what can you do about it?  They are in charge of your grade, your future, your education.  All of these things I can only assume are very important to you.

It is going to happen and you will be placed under the authority of people who you do not enjoy.  Hopefully a bad situation will be temporary and you can learn from it and move on.  How you go forth from it is what makes you who you are and is what builds your character or lack thereof.

Don't take jerky people personally.  Assume them to be sad individuals with no goodness or positivity in their lives.  A true authority figure rules with kindness and understand of the people that are under them.  A person that has been placed in authority wrongly will not stay there due to their own actions.

Keep sticking with kindness.