“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”
If getting back up is living, then I am alive and well!
When I was very young, being a child of older parents – I was always around much older adults. There was more than the fair share of cranky old women and men. I never understood why they were always in a bad mood. I was pretty sure it had nothing to do with me, but I wondered what made them that way?
I promised myself then and there that I would not grow up to be a cranky old woman.
Uh Oh!
Now that I myself am an adult, surrounded by other adults – I think I’m beginning to understand. I still don’t want to be “one of them, the cranky ones” – but I’m starting to understand the how and why they got that way. The difference today? I can make a choice to not let it turn me into the same thing. I can remove myself.
When I read the above statement, it was like a very bright light bulb went off in my brain. By nature I am the fixer, the pleaser, the consensus builder – but some people just do not want to be happy. They thrive in their “poor me” land. It’s the way they seek attention. Not this woman. Much like the past post I wrote several years ago about the “bobbin” on top of the water? That’s me, I’m going to pop back up onto the surface.
Scroll back up and read the quote again. Decide to walk away from the Drama Queens (or Kings) in your life. Reside in a place where people make you laugh, and show you respect. It’s hard to walk away, some of these people have been in my life for 30+ years, but they’re weighing me down. I will be the Phoenix rising from the ashes, see me soar!
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