I went to the store to pick up my merchant item. The store clerk at the cashier counter was a woman who is around my age. She was polite and kind. We started with the normal conversation. Before the customer sign the acceptance of the item, the customer needs to open the package and check the item for any damage, the ordered size and color. And so, in order to open the package, she passed me a pair of scissors.
Sounds like, so far so good, right?
To my surprise, however, she passed me a pair of scissors with the sharp side directed to me. My parents and teachers had taught me the proper way of passing a pair of scissors to somebody was to hold the sharp edge on my side and the handle facing to the person, for safety reasons.
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All of a sudden, I realized my progress in my feeling. I was not offended by the shop clerk at all. I am just observing the event in my normal calm mental state.
When the similar thing happened to me years before, I would get offended by the shop clerk. For several years after I moved to America, I had a bad habit on comparing everything between Japanese and Americans.
I am not the old me anymore. I have evolved.
I have come to fully understand that I should respect others, instead of wanting them to follow my ways and my morals. It is not the matter of good or bad, rather, it is the matter on how I can stay being happy, no matter what.
♬ Any feedback? (^^♪
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