Life has a way of dishing up some crazy $#!%, and with every one, you have the opportunity to either grow and learn a new lesson (or finally understand an old one) or revert to playground rules of running from the cootie-infested boys, my fort against yours, and the infamous he-said, she-saids. Personally, I prefer to choose the former because a six-year-old mentality and pointing blame never gets you very far.
Life's been throwing a lot of these opportunities at me the past couple months. It hasn't exactly been the greatest of times in my world, and I have to say that it sucks to be a grown-up sometimes. I'm sure in the end, I'll be glad I endured these trials and will come out stronger than before, but right now, I almost feel I'd rather be reliving summer camp counselor days in Florida, which, I will graciously admit, were not my finest days. However, I walked away having grown from those experiences. Life can't be all roses because then the frolicking times would never be seen as a blessing but rather only mundane.
I think your whole life you are given practice at choosing your battles. Are you going to fight about who's right or just agree to disagree? Are you going to complain about calling the cable company or just do it and get it over with? Are you going to ask forgiveness or hold a grudge forever? Are you going to force the three-year-old to eat the egg salad sandwich or just let her eat the fruit if she's willing to actually eat something?
The hardest battle of all though, I feel, is when you know you are right, yet whatever you say is completely overlooked because it doesn't fit the overall consensus. You are unrightfully put in the wrong. So what do you choose? Fight it or let it go and move past the issue at hand? I will willingly admit my wrongs or mistakes, but it is rather infuriating to be an honest, level-headed girl who has to decide what's worth more...integrity or pride.
I'll choose integrity...because losing who you are is far too great a cost of being proven right.
Gratitude 103
Chad treated me to dinner at the Olive Garden tonight! My favorite! :) He is one of the best friends ever!! :) We have been needing some serious catching up on life, but he's been awful about answering messages, so he wanted to make up for it. :) Yay! It also lifted my spirits after a few tense days. Thank you, Chad!! Pretty sure I'd go crazy if it wasn't for Lynn, Chad, and Barb making sure laughter and fun stays swirling! haha!
Also...squirrels are PSYCHOTIC!!! They CREEP ME OUT!!! I have definitely almost hit so many...ON MY BICYCLE! (Only in my life would that happen, right? haha! Would make quite a story, though!) Seriously...they just hop out in front of your path when you are going full speed. They are frolicking through trees EVERYWHERE. And today, I saw one thunk itself into a trash bin and fling itself out again with a candy wrapper or something and scurry away. They are completely NUTS! I am totally freaked that one is just going to jump on my head and attack me! No joke...I've seen it happen to people around here! EEK!
Samantha,
ReplyDeleteI veritably wish that I could be so patient as you have tried to be with your circumstances in this post. This is a lesson so many of us have difficulty in learning and retaining. Furthermore, I am pleased to see your interesting choice of wording for the first sentence of the second paragraph of this post; you choose to emply the noun "opportunities" as the object that life has been throwing at you when you could have instead inserted the negative connotations of "difficulties" or "obstacles" in its place. It is wondrous that you put such a positive perspective upon your less than desirable points in your life to make them more of a blessing to you in the end.
In conclusion, then, to say something about your trouble with squirrels, I must concur with you in your adequate description of them. It seems that the more domesticated and familiarized with humanity they become, the more daring and bothersome they attempt to be to us. I hope that they creatures do not attack you; I have never seen this phenomenon in the animal, and I am sure it is not a pleasant one for either the witness or the victim of such a thing.
-Tyler.
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