This Too Shall Pass...

So yeah... I'm feeling anxiously bummed about now. How could I be feeling this, you may ask? Well, in answer, I must say you just don't understand me well enough, yet...


Did you ever try to do or say the right thing and it is taken in a completely different way than intended??? I am one of those unfortunates to whom it happens all the time. Now, I prefer to call it being misunderstood, but they call it being completely wrong, or as I've often heard, "Way off base". Why is it words fail me at the most inopportune times? (gotta love spell check!) I know what I'm feeling. I know the message I want to convey. But somewhere between my emotionally charged brain and my ever overzealous mouth, something must happen... 


Up to this point in my life I have been accused of saying the wrong things at exactly the wrong times. I have been able to 'deal' with this over the years. (Argue my case until I'm blue in the face, but it is dealt with.) But now, now in these modern times of internet and computers and smart phones, I have added another conundrum to the mix. Now I not only say the wrong things at the wrong times, but in the wrong place!!! Facebook. Yes, facebook. I have now (apparently) said the wrong thing at the wrong time and I posted it on their wall for all to see! Geez. Like the world is going to see it for crying out loud! I'll bet more people read this blog than someone else's wall! And it certainly wasn't meant to be malicious or harmful in any way. It was truthful, honest, and meant to help. 


Truthful and honest. (Here we go Lex...) I have been told my entire life to tell the truth. Be honest. "Honest Abe". "You'll go to Hell for lying!" "I cannot tell a lie, Father. I cut down the cherry tree." You get the jest... I can get in more trouble in one day by telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth than anyone I know that lies all the time. Especially at work. Omg. Why is that? Hmm? Why have I been brainwashed my whole existence to tell the truth just to  have people get angry at me for doing so? I need a tattoo on my forehead that says, "Don't ask if you don't want to know". "The truth hurts" is another saying I've heard forever. But have always heard "the truth will set you free". :-/


Me thinks those who get angriest are those who are trying to cover up a lie... Or a whole string of lies maybe. And they are frustrated cuz they've worked so hard at their web of deceit just to watch it get blown away with one "gust" of truth... That's it! It has to be it! After all, it's hard to remember all those lies and keep them straight for questioning! Well, I have news for all you hard working, memory exercising liars out there: If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.  ~Mark Twain. Couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, I've quoted it several times. Good ol' Sam. He knew his sh*t.


So truth it is. Now all I have to do is work on the gossip... especially gossip which I've gotten from a known liar. 


"Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles." Proverbs 21:23

"Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles." Proverbs 21:23

"By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone." Proverbs 25:15

And on those wonderful words of truth, I bid thee good night!