I'm on a ROLL!

Remember how I was questioning if I should make my blog private, and remember how I said I had writers block......


WELL....I kinda decided. Heres how I came to my conclusion:


“People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered: Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. 
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa

Someone posted this on facebook, and I realized I already learned this lesson, and its about time I acted like it. I don't need to be scared of someone posting rude comments. If they do, I can delete them or go private if necessary, but in the mean time that shouldn't stop me from posting my feelings. Especially if it's something important to me. 

So thought number one. Well more like realization numero uno. I've been awakened by just that. That in order for myself to learn (which I recently expressed that I have that urge.) is that I have to share. Why? So that others CAN do the same. In order to learn, I have to become teachable. In just my post about motherhood-I had two people misinterpret my post. So I had to further clarify. It's good to have a rough draft, Thats how you become a better writer. I think the same applies in life. You can make the corrections along the way, and I want to be one of those who can be corrected, when I may have overlooked a factor. 

I'm realizing that I need to be open minded. That while I have NEVER, and I repeat NEVER shut anyone out despite of religion, belief, political views, gender, or anything else.. I have always been scared of offending someone. So I've always been very hush hush about things, and only appealing to one type of conversation. The "safe" ones. 

But who is going challenging me?

I'm not saying I am going to change who I am, and the things I believe in, In fact it's just the opposite, I'm VOICING what I know to be true (at least in *MY* heart/maybe not yours), but that doesn't mean that I can't have a deeper understanding-or see it from a different angle. And if if I DON'T agree with you, that doesn't mean that we can't be friends? I can respect someone else rationalizations even though I may  not have that same thought process. I want to see the WHOLE picture, not just from my inside, but on the outside too.  I'm ready for conversation. I'm ready for respectful debate. I'm ready to listen. I need the fine tuning. Over the space of time this blog is going to be a more honest one... I owe it you and to myself.