RAWHIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you ever feel like you just want to run as fast as you can???

Not in any particular direction.

Just fast enough that you can feel the winds of freedom blow through your hair.

Not because you are being abused or being chased by a flesh eating zombie. But because you just want to breathe.

You give so much of yourself to so many different people that when you look down you realize that none of what you see is what you want.

It's time for you.

It's time for you.

It's time for you.

Sometimes we wait for someone else to give us a chance, or the opportunity to leave it all behind.

But maybe it is you who has to open that door for yourself.

Maybe you were destined to free yourself.

You can't always wait for the sun to rise. Sometimes you have to get in the chariot yourself and ride.

RAWHIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try me on for size

Sometimes I wonder why people can't be more like me...


Now wait a minute before you get all "OMG she is so self-absorbed!!!"...


I just wish people tried to be more understanding and empathetic. I spend ALL day being understanding to other people and the way they feel and the way they think and the way they are, but sometimes I wish people did the same for me. I wish people took the time to sit and think. "Yeah she is going through the same thing that I am so shouldn't throw all of my negativity onto her, instead I should try to figure out what I can do in order to make this situation better for all of us."


But do you know the problem with that thought process??? ...

No body is thinking about understanding one another.


Everybody is only thinking of themselves and how they can help make their own situation better. If you get frustrated about something that you did and you are in a room with other people, don't sit there and ruin it for the others. Remember that you are not the only person in the room, or the house, or at the job, or in the county, or the country, or in the world.


Understand that there are billions of people around you with different stories, issues, and problems. And although I'm not asking you to do everything you can in order to make all of those people feel better about their days. I am asking you to be more considerate of how they may feel when you shut off the TV while they are in the room just because your're mad, or when you complain to them about the decisions being made(or not being made) when everyone in the building is under the same fate, or even when you openly scold them when they are doing their job of advising you to do something to improve your performance.


Understand that supervisors, co-workers, and girlfriends are just another name for a certain group of People. And People have feelings too.