I wonder what it’s all about,
And why we suffer so, when little things go wrong?
We make our life a struggle,
When life should be a song,
Written by Ronald Reagan when he was a high school student. It’s a good question that probably been asked forever.
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srbottch
Retired in 2013 after 5 years as an elementary school teacher and 40 years as a sales representative to begin anew as a school crossing guard. SMy essays/stories are a way to communicate through the telling of personal experiences. One reader said about my blog stories, "...these are like a cold sip during a marathon run, simple, real life events". Another offered about my blog, “it brings some sense of normalcy not easily found in the modern world.”
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I think that sensitive people suffer more. A lot of people blame themselves or see their own responsibility into situations that have nothing to do with them. We do create our own hell.
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I agree, sensitive/creative people do suffer more. My grandmother, mother, aunt, daughter and I fall into that category. Others don’t understand it.
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I agree. My husband doesn’t understand me at all
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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus…or something like that😉
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On the other hand, there’s a saying, “don’t sweat the small stuff. And it’s all small stuff.” Well, maybe not all of it….
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I agree. I tend to let things roll off my back like water on a duck. Might be wiser if I took some things s bit more seriously. On second thought, nah!😉
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I like Reagan’s thoughts. When things went wrong I finally had to develop a comforting statement to get the self blame cycle to quit. It is, “At least nobody died.”
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I’ve thought the same but if I let it slip, I might go down for the count or have to cook my own dinner!!!
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🤣
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I had an academic advisor colleague who used to say that when she made a mistake. (Her prior career was as a school counselor. Middle school, think.)
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Well, admitting the mistake is the first big step, isn’t it? I try to act sophisticated when I err by quoting Shakespeare, ‘to err is human, to forgive divine (and I’m divine)’ or was that Groucho Marx…
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Ahhh, it feels so good to laugh at the end of a day.
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There were many “so nobody died” moments in her job.
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😂😂
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