Grown Up?

Grown-up lady
In child’s clothes
Little boy
In a man’s suit
Do any of us
Really grow up
Are we destined
To make the same mistakes
To lose our way
To be afraid
To throw our fits
To demand
Our selfish way
Will we learn
One of these days
To put away
Childish things

Going Around in Circles

Below is a Note to Myself

A little reminder that I can change myself

And what that change should look like

If your going around in circles, girl
It is your feet taking you there
If you keep coming back to where you started
It is you who keeps taking the same path
Oh, you can blame others all you want
Not going to get you anywhere
Accept right back where you started
Going around in circles
You are only a victim if you choose
To stay stuck in your past

Hold on Loosely …But Do Let Go…

I been thinking about how some relationships fail and how doing the thing you think will keep someone in your life often backfires and produces the opposite effect of the one you wanted. As I thought I wrote and it became what is written below:

You cannot force people to love you, to like you, to think like you do, to miss you, to care about you, to have the same feelings for you as you may have for them, or return to you.

People need to be free and the more you hold on while they are struggling to be free the longer they will stay away when they do, eventually,  break away.

You can loosen your grip, love them without sufficating them, give them the freedom to think for themselves,to stop pinning away for what will never be,to care for yourself,to not demand they feel the same way, and to get on with your own life.

Sorry, no other way to have peace.

Controlling behaviors do not come off as loving to those being controlled.
They are not singing you the song of the martyrs.

Life is not easy, it is not always fair, but you either learn or you keep repeating the same mistakes…

Thoughts About Feelings

I’m not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure. -Peter Morgan-

Human emotion what a wild ride that can be!
So much that goes on in the mind!
Some of those feelings make it to the light of day and some are safely hidden in the dark spots we crawl into when faced with dissapointments, sorrows, or loss.

We truly are both the atagonist and the hero of our own existance.
We stand in our own way and rise to heights we did not know we could achieve.
We are both good and bad.
We are human and only less then that when we forsake our better self and deny our not so nice self exists.

No matter how carefully we hide the dark bits, at times, they tumble out and we are exposed.
We feel shame, remorse, or an arrgoant defiance.
Really, it depends on our personalities.

I see that many times people would rather deny these darker emotions.
Like they do not or should not exist.

But, does denying them make them go away or does it just build up so that the volcano makes a bigger eurption when we finally cannot hide what our feeling are anymore?

Jealous seems to be one of those taboo emotions.

So, I will use it as an example.

This, like any human failing, is all about how you handle that emotion
People get jealous, wise people do not act on that jealousy.
Perfect people never feel or act out in jealousy, or angry, or pettiness, or meaniness, or anything negative.
Perfect people are not real…the only true ‘fakes’ in my humble opinion.

In these days of social media it is  very easy to fake it and never make it.
A very narrow window and world is social meidia, very easy to downplay and deny certian aspects of our character that we don’t paticularly like.I want to be a real girl someday and so like Peter I want to shine the light on both the fralities of my nautre and the good bits as well.

I want to be fully human.

Days of commas and parentheses

 

I am editing my old blog posts some of those posts going back to 2013 when I started blogging.

Very painful to read many times.

There is an old movie about alcoholics  in which the marriage falls apart due to the alcoholism.

Days of Wine and Roses.

As I edited my old blog post I noticed that many look like a preschooler wrote them or a drunk, not sure which?

The Days of Commas and Parentheses  popped into my head, because there were several of them in odd spots and in excessive amounts of excessivness.  And my mind tends to wander into strange places like that.

I could add that there were a lot of quotation marks that were really not necessary, but  The Days of Commas, Quotation Marks, and Parentheses seemed a bit too long for a  blog title.

This editing may take awhile…a long while.

Anyway, I thinks, that (I have learned a little bit) about “writing” by doning it ,so much.

At least I hope I have.

Always room for improvement.  😉

Revisiting I Corinthians 14: 4-7

Would you loved to be loved this way?

Loved in patience
Loved in kindness
Not dealing with a jealous or/and boastful partner
Not dealing with a proud, rude, selfish partner
In love with someone not easily angered 
With someone who does not remind you of past wrongs
Someone who loves your truth
Someone who bears with you
Someone who always trusts you
Someone hopeful
Someone who endures hardships with you
A love that does not end?

Is this true love?
Is this the way it was meant to be?