Glory’s Life Lesson # 8
Glory’s Life Lesson # 8
Do you finish most weeks hoping that your upcoming week will be quiet and uneventful so that you can finally catch your breath and focus on your long neglected projects?
Glory’s Life Lesson # 8: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
Unless you do finally move to that isolated cave in the middle of nowhere and shun all human contact, you will always be around other people and with people comes drama. There are many legitimate problems that affect everyone’s life. Loved ones fall ill, financial difficulties, relationships alter, ect. Expect them and do your best to act in a way you can be proud of long after the event is past.
Unfortunately the most common kind of drama is what I call, “drama llamas.” Drama Llamas occur when a little issue or situation gets blown up into a state of emergency by someone with too much time on their hands. Nothing major happened. No one went to the hospital or lost their life savings. Everyone is able to still do all their daily obligations. The world is still spinning. And yet someone keeps adding fuel to the fire making an uproar.
It seems like this problem won’t go away and the more time goes by the bigger and more monstrous it gets. That’s a drama llama and it must be corralled and put away or it will be spitting in your facing and trampling all over your fun for a very long time. Drama llamas insist they need to be urgently attended to but in reality they will suck all your energy away and leave you with nothing positive in the end.
No matter what you do as long as you are surrounded by humans you will have drama crop up in your life. But if you spend most of your energy and time reacting to these situations and save no time and energy for the things that truly feed your spirit you will one day wake up 10 years older feeling like a dried up husk of your former self. You will have a hard time remembering the last time you laughed, sang or danced with abandon and you will have little or no accomplishments to show for your time on Earth because all you did was react to others rather than act with purpose in your Life.
This week allow yourself to dream. Dream BIG, sugar. Name three things you want to accomplish for yourself between this week and the rest of your life. And raising kids only counts as ONE thing. No cop outs. There are plenty of people who will happily try to hold you back, so don’t do the hard work for them. You’re dreaming BIG right now. Allow YOU to reach for the heavens. Next week you’re going to find out what you’re going to do with those three beautiful dreams when you read Glory’s Life Lesson #9!
With a sky of love,
Glory
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About the Author:
Glory Fink is a writer, a purveyor of euphemistically romantic materials, a photographer, a licensed educator, a wannabe dilettante, a mystery wrapped in an enigma covered in cashmere. She can be found playing with Shrodinger’s cat, traipsing through the back roads of the Mississippi Delta or concocting experiments in her lab/kitchen. Glory does not suffer fools gladly but will gladly suffer endless tours at the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory as long as the samples keep coming. She does her best writing in her pajamas and her best sleeping out of them. Glory’s cat is suspicious, her dog obliging and her friends humored by her many antics and efforts to become in reality what she is in her dreams.
Glory can be found living it up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in a quaint (read: run down) house in a newly historic district but still less reputable side of town with her miniature dachshund and one cat who isn’t. The outside cat came with the house; he is not a pet as much as a ninja. Please feel free to email or call on Glory any time, her life could do with a few more interesting people.
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