Make People

You can make people angry, happy, scared, miserable, excited, joyous and an entire gamut of other emotions and states of mind. You just can't make people be nice.

You can't make them thoughtful or kind or responsible or anything else they really are not. You can make people do the right thing but they will resent it and you. For example, there is something very aberrant with court ordered, mandated community service as a penalty for crime.

People are like dogs, only with a more calculated, refined and controlled sense of display.

You can take a well fed fat dog's food away after he's finished eating and he's still going to find some more room in his belly to bite you. Try to take a rich man's penny or a politician's thunder. I've had an official personally appointed to his position by the President of The United States threaten me and my career within the first 4 minutes of our meeting. I learned that size, fury and close proximity trump "said" authority. I am still working and have not yet been "removed", wink wink, slide the finger across the nose.

You can make people aware but you cannot make people change.

With these thoughts in mind I begin my preparations for the holiday season.