Re: Professionals
Posted by XXXXXX on April 28, 1998 at 05:23:59:
In Reply to: Professionals posted by Sue Atkinson on April 26, 1998 at 21:12:45:
: This is not my opinion, this is the opinion of the woman who has
been
: teaching me the art of Mehndi, I am just passing this along...Like
: Catherine did.
: I call my teacher Granmama..(she prefers it) she has asked me why
do
: we call ourselves "professionals", when we are not....we did not
learn
: this ancient art from our ancestors, it was not handed down to us
: through our families, why do we insist that we know more than they
do
: about this art.
: I have told her that a "professional" is someone practicing a
: profession, someone who does something for a living, rather than a
: hobby. (Yes I looked it up in the dictionary, to tell her),,,this
has
: not satisfied her question as to why do we think we know more about
: this than them..
: Granmama says it does not matter how many years of learning,
reading
: about, research on the subject, or even how many years we have been
: doing this, we are not "professionals".
: Can anyone help me here? Explain to Granmama why we feel we are
: professionals.
:
: She has read this page a number of times, when she is here, and she
: is so dissappointed in what us "professionals" say and do here...I
: have to agree with her, we have put each other down,called each
other
: names, and slandered some, someone makes a response to someones
: question or comment and someone(self encluded), has a 'better'
: way...and then there is the 'best' way. I want to apologize for my
: behaviour and attitude, and postings that may have offended
anyone...I
: deeply apologize.
Right On...we are NOT "PROFESSIONALS" Granmama is right, and let us
not forget it...