My Soapbox

Really not sure where this one is headed, but here goes. Be forwarned, I am kind of ornery tonight and this may be a bit testy. I had to pick up the youngest this afternoon from the YMCA, where she was hanging out... there was a really bad wreck and a lot of traffic was being diverted off our little local "highway" onto the road the Y sits on. Normally, there isn't any traffic, so I sat there for a while watching people. I watched the fellow in front of me smoking and pitching the butts out the window for a good 20 minutes. Others being cranky because they had to sit in traffic. Went to the grocery store and stepped in gum. Fed the cat on my porch, because he is hungry and thirsty and whoever owns him isn't taking proper care of him. The dirty diaper that was thrown in the parking lot at the Wal-Mart and the lady standing behind me in line complaining that she tried to get hired on again, but couldn't pass the new computer tests they have to take. Don't get me wrong, today I don't think I have done much to hold up the positive energy myself, judging as my shoulder muscles may very well either pop my head completely off or suck it down into my chest cavity.

That was the rant part of my blog - here is the originally intended message. Sometimes it takes a while to come out...I tend to beat around the bush when I am not sure the message wants to be heard. That being said, I think we all have a great responsibility in ensuring the messages we put out there are for the greater good. This is where following and knowing our own truths come into play and are so critical. If you don't know your own truths, you are putting yourself in the position of believing others' truths and as we probably all have been there at least once in our lives, it isn't a good thing.

Using our own belief systems to wade through all that is out here to figure out what resonates with our inner knowing. I see some of these younger people out here online and depending on what support systems they have and how strong they are, I can see where it would be very easy to fall into following.

So, if you don't know what your truths are, start to think about them. Re-evaluate all of your pre-conceived notions, the little ego thoughts that chatter and chirp in the background of your head and decide which ones you want to hear and which ones you need to tell to be quiet. The stuff that your parents taught you or friends told you, or even stuff you read in the now. None of that matters. What matters is what YOU think, feel and know to be true for yourselves.

It is about feeling joy in knowing how you want to live your life. Coming back to treating people the way you want to be treated - which yes, means listening and really hearing, being respectful, cleaning up after ourselves. Picking up the litter we walk past in the parking lot. (well, except for the dirty diaper, eww, I mean really, who the heck does that????)

Helping out our neighbors and friends and family. Yes, within boundaries.. but again it comes with knowing yourself. As things progress we are all going to be looking around ourselves and relying on each other for support, love, and friendship.

Not sure if I ever did make the point I was going for...we'll see from the responses this gets. Anyhow. Respect one-another and your surroundings. Love, Karen