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.

• Natural Expressions

Follow-ups:

• ...a matter of semantics... Lise Anderson / Andalusia 18:32:17 4/28/98 (0)
• Re: Professionals XXXXXX 05:23:59 4/28/98 (0)
• I am not a professional, Granmama is right Marsha 03:21:07 4/28/98 (2)
  • i agree RuthAnn 18:04:42 4/28/98 (1)
    • Re: I also agree Kris 06:44:29 4/30/98 (0)
• Re: Professionals Catherine Cartwright Jones 23:09:21 4/26/98 (0)