RE: Contest | 25-Word-Comment - Monkey Business | Aid - 6 Steem
I can't help but as you mentioned the "boring lecture" I had to laugh but your friend is right. It's good to take the room to think (is the coffee office not too noisy to do so? No beach where you can sit alone and think? Or stretch out on the floor and do nothing for a change.)
I believe I told this story before but if not in short... I took my children to school and met a lady and she asked me: How are you doing? I said: Not too well... (I always say the truth and if people walk away that's fine I don't see any point in saying "great" if that's not the case. If you ask you should be able to deal with the answer).
It was on the streets, perhaps on a bridge but she listened. It's rare these days because "How do you do" is these days not different from "hi and goodbye" no one likes to hear what you have to say (I admit it's the same with one of my besties she backs off and I hear from her 6 weeks later or so). Well, this lady did and we chatted and while we did I thought: Who is she?
I had no clue and till today I haven't asked her name (perhaps I forgot?) . I thought she might be the mom of one of the children in my daughter's classes but later it turned out they didn't know who she was either. I spoke with her nearly daily for several weeks and next she disappeared (or I did) but it was good. Not all meetings are meant to stay friends forever. Some are the help we need for a moment to get back on our feet.
I hope you will always have people around you not pushing you into a corner but giving you time to think about what it is that you want for yourself.
Also important is to learn how to delegate. There's no need to take all the misery of the world on your shoulders. I also learned that many problems we face solve themselves and are not worth the sleepless nights, not to mention all those hours of calculating and scheduling. The word NO can be used.
Thanks for sharing and don't forget to relax
P.s. giving is easier than receiving, keep in mind that you can also hurt someone, friends if you always reject their help.
It was indeed a boring lecture because I had to hear that over and over again. But the thing is I could not sit alone on the beach at that critical point since my mind would go even wilder
just like your experience, I had some unknown friends and we never asked each other names and finally separated by time, some of them can be met at another time and place some no
I hope you have them as well, I know you get familiar with them along the way, and that is good too.
I know I need a friend who I can talk to, and asking help from. I will not reject the "helping hand" from real close friends and family, and I will ask when I need it.
I will keep this in mind, thank you very much Kitty
I have people around me but I trust my children more than the friends but if I do not count my children I don't trust my old family at all. It's a good thing we'll never met and most of them died and you are around.
Take good care of yourself that's all that counts.
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