Patience and Understanding!

The restaurant business keeps me learning every day.

What do I learn?

Patience and Understanding.

People, unwittingly, can be demanding and rushed.

We are conditioned to be this way because our beliefs, most likely given to us from someone else, tell us we deserve special treatment.

I would like to question that idea.

Are each one of us special in our own way? Absolutely!

But that isn’t what the conditioned beliefs around deserving special treatment are about.

These false narratives center around the idea that we are competing for what we deserve and that we should get more special treatment than others.

This narrative really plays out, and loudly, in a restaurant because people have false beliefs about what they deserve when they pay for something that they could just do themselves.

So, they can be demanding and impatient when “paying for what they can do themselves” and feeling like they ‘deserve’ and extraordinary experience.

I’m so glad that I understand and accept this completely.

That is why at our diner we don’t judge people for this conditioning.

How would they know something they do not know?

Instead, we deal with every customer with patience and understanding, no matter how they act.

We do this, not because it’s the best way to deal with people, I believe it is, but because it helps us, all of us working in the diner, to learn and grow our understanding that we are all one and that everyone who comes to the diner should feel that understanding.

When you move beyond, the ideas of the conditioning that causes pain and suffering, while also fully accepting that it exists and that most people have no idea that it exists, then you create a space where love is on the menu.

As unwittingly badly behaved as people might be, love seems like something that may transcend the conditioning that drives their actions.

Behind the scenes at the diner, we say come for the food, experience the love because our patience and understanding is what we are really serving.