I used to be a regular on Obesity Helps Ontario forum. Used to be. I got so SICK and Tired of the bullying and whining. Enough already! Up on your high horse, "I am a veteran and you peons are all such losers!"
Admittedly, I was headeddown that path as a NOVICE (OK, I have alot of balls), feeling very superior as I was doing so well, and all you sooky-babies were doing it all WRONG! Can you believe the GALL? But one thing about being 45, by this time you have learned to listen. My friends Toni and Lynnda ever so gently and delicately, WITHOUT pointing any fingers, showed me the error of my ways, and I chose to step off the path of righteous indignation I was on. It really is all about the choices people.
But some people are like mushrooms in manure, the more they can make people feel like ka-ka, the better they like it. Keeping people down, or trying to get them to all march (aka goosestep) in the same direction to the same drum...I thought there was a stinkin big war fought over that? I am honestly trying to understand why we all have to be the same? Just because I don't AGREE with you, doesn't mean I waste my time trying to make you conform. AND, those of you who don't know me...I am a big, brash, loud, opinionated woman with a backbone! Makes alot of people very uncomfortable, and I am OK with that. BUT, there are all kinds of people that LIKE the way I am. Maybe I make them wince on occasion (LOL), but just maybe I say the things they think, but would never say out loud. I also READ alot of blogs, but you know what, if I find one I don't like, as in the way they write, or the message they are passing on, I STOP READING IT! I go my own way and let them go theirs. I don't then go off and spout off, "OMG I just read this AWFUL blog", and " If you read that blog and like it you are not like us! You stink!" Come on people! Are we in 4th grade? Remember the 60's MAN! Peace! Live and Let Live! Our Differences Make Us Special!
I am goint to quote Robert Fulghum. One of my favorite, simplistic writers.
From "All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten."
These are the things I learned:
- Share everything.
- Play fair.
- Don't hit people.
- Put things back where you found them.
- Clean up your own mess.
- Don't take things that aren't yours.
- Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
- Wash your hands before you eat.
- Flush.
- Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
- Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
- Take a nap every afternoon.
- When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
- Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
- Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
- And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Wonderful philosophy to live by. I don't always succeed, but I try. And one thing I have noticed, boy does it save you alot of energy. Alot of energy I can use for something else...maybe something really important!
Does this mean I can't be a catty bitch? Absolutely not! At times my ability to bitch with the best of them has opened alot of doors. Or maybe gotten my point across. And if my quick tongue gets me in trouble, I take my lumps. If you dish it out you better be able to take it.
I really love that last rule...LOOK! Cause sometimes the devil is right in front of you and you don't know it. It is good at disguises, and sometimes even pretends to have wings. I can see how a teasing comb and a can of hairspray can mask a set of horns, but hiding that pointy tail must be a real challenge!
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