Sticks and Stones...

    I must say, that, since I’ve been ‘blogging’, and, ‘sharing’ my musings, I have had an awful lot of positive response and reaction(s)...thank you, folks, for your support! I know, as well, though, that on occasion, I have ‘ruffled’ a few-feathers, as it were; although, this, certainly, has NEVER been my aim. Naturally, if I ever ‘hit a nerve’ within some, who may peruse my posts, I know that it is, simply, because what I write about and/or espouse to is a topic or subject which they, personally, ‘wrangle-with’; for this is, typically, what triggers this type reaction or response in people. When we find ourselves affronted, hurt or peeved, or, otherwise, ‘offended’, as the result of another person’s opinion, it is ONLY due to the fact that, usually, there exists some ‘level of truth’ to what is being espoused, with this causing discomfort within ourselves. Furthermore, when we find ourselves feeling insulted or ridiculed this is because we are ‘allowing’ ourselves to experience this; for nobody has the ‘power’ to hurt our feelings unless we let them. When we are young, we are ‘taught’ to believe this, ‘truth’, when we ‘learn’ the ‘school-yard’-philosophy of ‘Sticks and Stones’; this, containing the ‘message’ that hate-filled words, spoken by others, toward us, have NO ability to cause us harm. I am not sure as to why, other than for a human’s need to be ‘accepted’, that we tend to forget and forgo this, simplest of approaches to a happier existence; yet, it seems that many of us DO, instead, allow the opinion of some, folks to ‘get under our skin’. Truth be told...I no longer fall into the category of people who permits this to happen to them. I discovered, quite some time ago, that it is within my own power to prevent MY hurt-feelings. I have quoted Eleanor Roosevelt, on several-occasions, over the months, and, am inclined to do so, once again. Here are two of her, most-astute proclamations: ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ or ‘What other people think of me is none of my business.’ SMART lady, to be sure! And, so...I will continue to express myself, in my ‘offerings’, which, you may either choose to read or disregard; it is inconsequential to me, either way. I hope that in my ‘sharing’, you may, simply, ‘appreciate’ my ‘right’ to an opinion and take any of this with the, proverbial, ‘grain of salt’; knowing ‘first and foremost’, that, this is nothing more than MY ‘Take’ on things; a thing to which we are, ALL, entitled. Just Sayin’...