What Kind of Person Am I?


"I'm your everyday, customary kind of woman

Practical as salt

Modest to a fault

Conservative with a budget

Liberal with a meal" 

So those lyrics are from the great 1970s musical piping.  And with the exception of the modest to a fault, I think those lyrics from the song ordinary woman pretty much describe me. I am a conservative liberal. 

Does such a thing exist? Well I exist and again it pretty much describes me. I am conservative in some aspects of my life and liberal in others. You can be both. Honestly, I think the world would be a better place if we were all a little bit of both.

Let me talk about my conservative side first.  I try to be extremely conservative with my money. With cost continually rising, I do my best to stretch my dollar. That doesn't mean being cheap. I have found out the hard way that being cheap can actually result in being very costly. Sometimes the cheap is not worth it.   I've said it before and will say it again...you need to do your research.  And I always try to do so before spending. When making a major purchase, I don't want to spend a lot of money but I do want to make sure that what I'm purchasing is of a decent quality and is going to last. Maybe that's why I'm not so fond of cell phones which constantly need to be upgraded or even worse break and cannot be repaired. Yes I'm old I believe that things should be able to be repaired and not just replaced. 

But I'm not just conservative when it comes to money. I'm conservative when it comes to our environment and our planet. Because I believe a conservative should be someone who wants to conserve the world which we live. Meaning that we have this planet and we need to conserve it. We need to take care of it not just for ourselves but for our children and for their children. We need to be conservative when it comes to the future. I'd like to say that's because I'm a Christian and God has called me to be a good steward to the planet. However I don't think Christianity has a soul cap on caring for the planet. But conservatives should. It's about taking care, it's about conserving what exists and making sure that it is available not just today but tomorrow. 

But I am also a liberal. I'm liberal with my love. I'm one of those crazy people who believes the more love you give, the more love you get. Or as my beloved Beatles once said: "and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make." It's true. The more you put out into the world when it comes to love the more you get back in amazing and unexpected ways. But you have to be liberal with your love.

I am also liberal when it comes to caring for people.  We all are of the human race and we need to take care of each other. That doesn't mean that we just randomly give things away, but it does mean that I feel called to share with others.  By share, I don't mean money (although I do that as well...with conservatism).  I share my time.  I share my talents.  I share my love.  I am intentionally liberal when it comes to all those things.

I suppose you could say I'm liberal in my thinking, but I'm conservative when it comes to sharing my thoughts.  After all, no matter which side of the fence you might be sitting on, NO ONE wants someone else's thoughts or opinions shoved down their throats.  Doing so is certainly NOT going to make someone change their mind and more likely it's going to make that person LESS likely to listen. (No matter what political party or idea someone supports, when a person starts ranting, you've lost me.  Even if I completely agree with that person...I don't want to hear it.)  When someone asks for my thoughts, I can be liberal in giving them.  But unless I am asked, I remain conservative.

I'd like it if our leaders were the same, but...And again I'm not talking about one particular party or another.  As a matter of fact, I think these parties are part of the problem.  Political parties may be extremely conservative or liberal.  The majority of people are a combination of the two.  (I never thought I was unique.)  But both parties lack focus on what is really needed; to listen to the people and act accordingly.  After all they are supposed to be public servants; that is they serve the ALL the public and not just one specific group.  They are supposed to listen to all viewpoints and not ignore the ones that don't necessarily mesh with their own.

So if you've made it thus far and read all of this; am I conservative liberal or a liberal conservative?  Does it really matter?  After all, I'm just..."I'm your everyday, customary kind of woman.  Practical as salt. Modest to a fault."


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