Dont do what you want to do; do what I want you to do …
9:15 is the perfect time to talk about people who want to tell you what your doing wrong with your life.
First of all, if you asked them for their opinion, then end of subject.
Suck it up.
Alot of us get advice from people who really, really dont know where you are comming from.
They havent walked in your shoes, had the various experiences that have brought you to the place you are now.
I dare say, most of them wouldnt be pushing their advice when their lives were going terribly…. because then you could be pointing out the things they might want to do differently.
No , no , they want to say “look how things are working for me. my life is running smoothly ( now, heh heh ) I can tell you how you ought to be doing things, because look at me.”
Let’s look at you a few years ago,shall we?
Better yet, lets get this one thing straight-
Life is full of ups and downs.
You can be the person who makes safe choices and doesnt rock the boat in life …. and thats fine. Its a wonderful choice …. for you.
It was in the movie Parenthood :
Grandma: You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster.
Gil: Oh?
Grandma: Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride!
Gil: What a great story.
Grandma: I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn’t like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.
I find that the people enjoying the merry-go-round have just as many issues in their life. Sometimes more.
They take anti-depressants and proclaim their happiness.
They pretend their way through life so that things stay a certain way.
If that works for you, then do it.
Just dont ask that I do it too.
One more thing -
Do you want advice from someone who lives their life regardless of whose feathers get ruffled , knowing whatever they say will be the truth as they see it, or do you want to know how to maintain and keep things on an even keel … at the cost of your own feelings?
Answers are as individual as the individual.
