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September 16, 2006, 12:44 am PDT
It's hard to be hateful when you're grateful
Quote From: momakababeand while they do have a tendency to mix things up in the coming attractions to pull in viewers they didn't mix anything when she stuck out her foot & tripped that guy. There's just no excuse for behavior like that. As a nation we've had so much pain in the past few years with 9/11, the war in Iraq & the hurricanes etc. the idea that someone could be so upset over *NOTHING* that they become violent is just outragious. We should all just be so grateful that we're not having serious problems and that we're here and healthy it just frosts me when I see people act this way. Amen to that. While we all can get overwhelmed by thethings
that happen around us, I should think our human dignity would demand
that we at least TRY to reign in our urges to do harm toothers.
For me, my level of calmness can be linked tomy degree of
spiritual fitness. If I am not right with the world, anybody who
drives a car near me is a jerk. I get all worked up over their
minor infractions, kind of like this grocery store lady. The only
person it hurts is me...but I count, too. So even though I am the
only one hurt I try to adjust my attitude. Someone told me about
10 years ago: It's hard to be hateful when you are
grateful. And gratitude is an inside job.
Sometimes I have
a hard time feeling grateful. My income is$800/month and I have
difficulty paying my utiltiy bills. I'm not married and my only
child was stillborn--even my father died in a plane crash (it sounds
kind of unbelievable. Trust me, it only gets worse.). But I
can ACT grateful until I feel it. You can use gratitude as a TOOL to
get yourself out of a crappy mental place. I'm grateful that I
have a family who can help me pay my utitlity bills. I'm grateful
I have a bunch of friends who love and support me. Sometimes I
don't want to be grateful for those things--I'd rather be grateful for a Mercedes Benz in the driveway and a baby in a carriage, but the point is, I'm happier when
I'm in gratitude. So yeah, maybe what this woman needs is to take out
her kit of spiritual tools and put them to work!!!! Middle
class?? I wish!!!!! LOL (Not that poor pain is worse than
middle class pain...ha ha ha Seriously, it doesn't work that
way. Pain is pain. Although, I guess there does come
a time when you have to say, "quit your whining." Oh well...)
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