I Feel a Rant Coming On

I hate it when it happens to me.  I like to think of myself as an open minded person, accepting people where they are in their station in life, their circumstances, abilities, desires, etc.  Then it happens, I open a site and violate what I wrote yesterday about being "contributors."  A modeler had been asked to write an article about how he built a depot using foam core board.  I read through the article, began looking at the pictures and there it was "The chimney is the wrong size!"  I have become the dreaded rivet counter, or as POGO used to say, "We have met the enemy and he is us!"

Our prejudices are just laying there under our skin, waiting to jump out at our most embarrassing moments.  Most of us say that we are not prejudiced, it is not the politically right thing to be.  We want to be better people, more understanding people, less offending people.  When ever those thoughts spring up we push them down and overcome them at that moment.  But, if the right thing happens at the wrong time, or the wrong thing at the right time, those pushed down thoughts and feelings squirt out like a popped zit.

I believe it would be better if we would just admit that we are flawed humans, not bad humans, just not perfect humans.  For most of us, modeling is a modest part of our lives.  He have our spiritual part, family part, work part, community part, maybe even more parts.  When we see the efforts of another modeler we are  only seeing that limited part of them.  Maybe, when we see someone's modest efforts and say "I could do better than that" we should say thank you for being an encourager, pushing me to set a higher goal and improve my efforts.