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"Professionalism"
By Just a Thought again.

I agree that certain words or groups of words can be shared/vented about school related issues after school hours out of hear shot of children and people who might be related to those children.

BUT . . . let's not just
fall in "love" with the word, "professionalism." Being a "good" "professional" verses being a "poor" "professional" isn't a judgement call that is as simple as calling it, "black or white" as many seem to think. There are "gray" areas. What you may think is "professional" doesn't mean others will put in it the same light as you do. And because others see things in different ways doesn't

make others "not as professional" as you are! It doesn't make you "more professional" than they are either! Just be careful when you find yourself throwing that "big" word around to place yourself on that "professional" pedestal that makes you think that you are "better than the other guy!" Also be careful not to brag that you think you are a better "professional" than the other people that you could or should be a "role model" for them to imitate! No one is that perfect!

I knew a young 25 year old who fell in love with the word, "marriage." She was getting married and she was an "expert" about how to set up the wedding arrangements and thought she knew what the perfect couple relationship was and she judged other's relationships by comparing her own "perfect" future marriage. Only after a year, did she find out that she was sooo in love with the word, "marriage," that she forgot one important espect to the whole situation. It might have help if -instead of falling head over heal in love with the idea of "marriage-," it might have been best to have fallen in "love" with the guy she married. After a year of marriage, she fell in "love" with another word, "divorse!" We don't know everything so judge not.

I have learned to fall in love with "being the best human being that I can." I don't like the usage of the word "professional" because people use it in a negative way to "judge" others and to place and rank themselves above others. "I'm more professional than so and so."

Just be a good human being who says and does things so that when you get home, you feel good about what you've done and what you've said -and you feel good about yourself. That will incorporate what ever definition of "professionalism" one wants to use.