just thinking.....

I was reading the blog of a young man who is the child of a friend of mine. This young man is 20 years old..has never had but one job in his entire life, is attending Rice University, just got his drivers license and a car( purchased by his parents of course, not brand new but new enough). Anyway he was talking about Christmas shopping, about how he had a gift in mind for Mom but it wasn't enough to give on its own, and how he and his sis were going over to their Dad's workplace ( across town from them) and do some shopping "if there were any decent places to shop in that area". Got me to thinking about how it is that this young man would have the funds to worry over much about 'decent' shopping, and what he considers that to be. Is there some law that says that a gift given with love no matter the price is not equal to one of more monetary value given because there is a certain dollar amount expected to be spent?? I have seen this same young man make disparaging remarks about other things from time to time. It makes me sad to think about it. Snobbery. Someone who thinks they are superior to others in any form....Nobody is BETTER than anybody else...but everybody is just as good as everybody else. So what if they don't have the education you do? So what if they don't have the finances you do? So what if they don't have the beauty you do or the social grace? None of that means that they are not as good as you, that they don't have just as good a heart and in the end isn't that what really counts?? Of course there are going to be people you just don't care for, personalities being so individual, it's just a shame that people think differences are a basis for superority/inferiority. My opinion *grins*

P.S. YES I do some of my Christmas shopping at Wal Mart...if that isn't satisfactory then I guess a heartfelt Merry Christmas will have to do!!