"Red Flags" a phrase that is burning through the masses like a wild fire in the Hundred Acre Wood (Oh dear Poo). But that isn't all it burns. It burns my ears, it burns my throat from the verbal vomit I want to spew, and it burns my ass (with a bit of chapping too).
So, you are either sitting there wondering why, or you are viciously nodding your head, concurring with what I have just offered.
For those in wonderment. My answer is... When I hear things like "You're giving me red flags" or "That sounds like a red flag to me." My brain goes to work using the actual meaning of the words RED FLAG - which ultimately does mean a sign of danger.
Danger, such as in a gang sign or a flag signaling you to stop before your car flies off the mountain and over the cliff.
My question when I hear those words directed at me or any person is "Why don't you just ask if we have prescription meds and if we're willing to share them or not."
Now, ask yourself who those red flags are for. If the person you had been referring to is not really under medical care or in need of a rubber room stay, I emphatically must insist that the chances of you being in real danger is probably slim or none. And the more likely culprit is that the RED FLAGS are put up by YOU,to protect YOU from whatever it is that YOU are truly afraid of.
There are a plethora of things that we definitely have "red flagged" over the years, isn't there?
Some 'red flagged" items I feel we have come to readily accept and that I hear the phrase often freely associated with are :
- Relationships - specifically in something requiring commitment, loyalty and/or monogamy.
- Jobs - when it requires us to do more than we are willing to do.
- Taxes - but the gov generally does use "red flags" in this area don't they? Does that mean 'dangerous' tax payers? Curious.
In my opinion, which you know I can rarely contain :); as we become more automated, less animated, more logical, less huggable, more texted, less audible, more introverted, less extroverted, more sheep like, less read the more likely we are to collect more of those crimson colored triangles.
My advice, stop collecting those excuses...oops I mean 'red flags' and start seeing people the way they are, acceptable to you or not.
I imagine that Master Yoda might put is this way...The eyes of the beholder, the same picture they do not see.
Oh wait you can't....until the next rant!! Cheers! :)
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