Positive Women - True Story, Everyone in the Jury Pool Has a Life Too - A Fresh Perspective
When a women I know, Jana, served jury duty this week, she came home with a fresh perspective from realizing everyone in the jury pool has a life too.
Positive women know fresh perspectives are vital to keeping a positive attitude because they interrupt our thinking and force us to see the other side of a situation.
The form this "reboot" takes can be gentle and or a violent surprise to our belief system.
In this case, is was a surprise that will stay with Jana for the rest of her life, inspiring an automatic perspective she never asked for and although fresh, unwanted.
Jana's jury pool consisted of 60 people being questioned as to whether or not they felt capable of being impartial when hearing a case against a man who killed his neighbor for molesting his daughter.
The reason it took two full days to find 12 jurors was because the majority of the jury pool members had been sexually assaulted as children.
Several of the others didn't trust police officers due to their experiences with inappropriate or unlawful officers in the past.
This was a huge awakening for Jana as it never occurred to her that much of the population had such histories and traumas that helped create who they are today.
The prospective jurors got to know one another while waiting so they felt supported as well as embarrassed to be forced to discuss sensitive issues in front of a crowd.
Positive women are aware.
They look around when they are stopped in traffic at an intersection or in line at the grocery store, acknowledging everyone there has a life too.
Each person has (or had) parents.
Each one has a home, job or school, or both.
Each person has friends, loved ones, challenges, tragedies, hopes and dreams.
A positive woman knows when someone is driving aggressively, they may be a jerk or they may be racing to the hospital to say goodbye to a dieing family member.
She knows when someone seems to overreact it means the situation triggered something from childhood they have yet to release.
A fresh perspective is important to a positive woman and so is realizing everyone in the jury pool has a life too.
Positive women know fresh perspectives are vital to keeping a positive attitude because they interrupt our thinking and force us to see the other side of a situation.
The form this "reboot" takes can be gentle and or a violent surprise to our belief system.
In this case, is was a surprise that will stay with Jana for the rest of her life, inspiring an automatic perspective she never asked for and although fresh, unwanted.
Jana's jury pool consisted of 60 people being questioned as to whether or not they felt capable of being impartial when hearing a case against a man who killed his neighbor for molesting his daughter.
The reason it took two full days to find 12 jurors was because the majority of the jury pool members had been sexually assaulted as children.
Several of the others didn't trust police officers due to their experiences with inappropriate or unlawful officers in the past.
This was a huge awakening for Jana as it never occurred to her that much of the population had such histories and traumas that helped create who they are today.
The prospective jurors got to know one another while waiting so they felt supported as well as embarrassed to be forced to discuss sensitive issues in front of a crowd.
Positive women are aware.
They look around when they are stopped in traffic at an intersection or in line at the grocery store, acknowledging everyone there has a life too.
Each person has (or had) parents.
Each one has a home, job or school, or both.
Each person has friends, loved ones, challenges, tragedies, hopes and dreams.
A positive woman knows when someone is driving aggressively, they may be a jerk or they may be racing to the hospital to say goodbye to a dieing family member.
She knows when someone seems to overreact it means the situation triggered something from childhood they have yet to release.
A fresh perspective is important to a positive woman and so is realizing everyone in the jury pool has a life too.
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