Trite Rituals

 Why hold out your hand to shake someone else’s hand?  Is it but a trite ritual?  Are you being polite without any personal commitment?  I  keep this in mind when I see someone at a gathering, a meeting, a ritual, whom I do not know.  A newcomer to me perhaps?  If I go over and shake that person’s hand, it means that I am making a personal commitment to that person.  I am here for them and inviting them to come back the next time.  If I am in a whining mood, or wearing self-centeredness, my busyness, I shake no one’s hand.  I am a comma without a sentence.