The Pool Police

There are many Snow birds here who have been coming to Naples for years and years. They know the rules and with eagle eyed precision scan the pool area for any violators of those rules. Yesterday a young woman in her 20's dove into the pool. The group of Snow birds in their floating chat circle quickly yelled at her, " No diving!" "There are signs everywhere you know that say that."

I saw the young woman roll her eyes as she swam away from them. Most people don't like the rules that seem to keep us from having fun. And we really don't like it when someone else is policing us and catching us in the act of breaking the rules. But we need rules and most of them make sense or there would be chaos. Imagine if there were no rules of the road for instance.

I can see reminding people of the rules that were created to keep them safe... like no diving in the pool; but I don't want to be the people police. I don't want to be watching others and telling them when they are making mistakes. We learn from "mis" "takes" and it is so much more freeing when I can focus on policing myself and let others do the same.

Pic.. Winterpark Pool