As I continue to ponder what it means to govern yourself accordingly, my father is now too trying to figure that out as well. As a family, we stand together perplexed. I mean... it is not like there is a self-help or how-to book on how to govern yourself accordingly... particularly when you are being held to the standards of one's who level of morality, common sense, ethics and brains is so far beneath yours that they are like specks of dirt on the floor. However, as we receive an abundance of correspondence letting us know what it means to govern yourself accordingly, we soon hope to be able to publish "Governing Yourself Appropriately... A How-To-Book for the Good People who do not know how to Act like a Morally and Ethically Bankrupt Person." The title is a bit long - but we are working on it.
The one lesson that we keep learning over and over again: when you are wrong, be on the offensive and never, ever tell the truth.
Here is what else we have gathered: when people are bothering you - even when you have asked them repeatedly to leave you alone - you do not govern yourself accordingly by referring to that person as a "jackass." Athough it is a noun listed in the dictionary as a "male donkey" or "a contempibly foolish or stupid person," apparently people with low morals who commit ethically and criminally wrong acts feel that it is not appropriate to refer to them in this fashion. Go figure.
Also... when people call you immature for walking away from someone who has lied to you, conned you, stolen from you and threatened you, you do not govern yourself accordingly by advising them that they have long ago crossed the fine line between maturity and insanity. Lesson learned. Okay to call someone immature. Not okay to point out a person's insanity.
What do these people who do not want to be referred to as a "jackass" or "mental" do? Apparently, the best way to govern yourself accordingly when you are harrassing someone who does not appreciate it and calls you a noun listed in the dictionary - you call the police to report this atrocity... to right the wrong that has been done to you. Because this, of course, is the best way to demonstrate that you are neither a jackass or a mental case.
