Love is ... SNIPPETS

Being able to offer a sincere apology ... being able to forgive ... being able to forget and/or if not LET GO! ...it makes life sooooooooooo much easier and so much livable ... and it starts with SELF ... 

 

Love is all of that and so much more .... love is all around us if we let it in ... sometimes we keep reaching out for it in all the wrong places when it is so close and so near all the time ... it is simple and not complicated ... it is given freely and unconditionally and it is not selfi**** requires nor demands anything in return ...

Love can be felt in nature... environment ... home and spirit ... it is humble and it is not boastful...

Love is..... OMG my list can go on for-ever and ever ... please feel free to add to it ... and share the love...

LOVE IS ...starting my day out with ferret kisses.....

 

Love is being loved and accepted for who I am and giving the same to others ... diversity rocks ... everywhere ... I love my workplace...


Love is OH ALLOWING ME TO SHARE MY EMPOWERMENT COLLAGE ... FROM MY EMPOWERMENT JOURNAL ... A PICTURE A DAY KEEPS THE POUNDS AND THE INCHES AWAY...
 

I am keeping morbid obesity under my feet ... one day .. one choice at a time ... this evening it is Zumba Toning with my awesome DD at W.O.W.  where I'll be moviendo la booty ... with my weights ... I swam laps for 90 minutes this morning at the pool at the gym before coming to work.

Oh I am keeping these bad boys out of my closet!!!
 

OMG I have a dress that looks almost like that, I bought it at Marshalls a few weeks ago.  I haven't worn it yet and I am saving it for my upcoming anniversary.  I love lace and chrocheted anything.  You look stunning as always.

Oh yeah and I don't forgive and I don't forget.  I keep mental notes on people and honestly if you do something underhanded that I find offensive you go straight to my **** list, i.e. my boyfriends neighbor that abused and neglected their dog in the middle of winter.  I wouldn't **** on this guy to put out the flames if he were on fire.  I sleep at night quite well knowing I would never intentionally hurt another human, animal, even bugs, and how others can that do I have no idea.  I cannot and will not ever forgive this sort of behaviour.  My personal opinion.

I hear you ... I was more referring to self as well as to others ... it is a complicated process...

Like you, I do believe that not all offenses can be easily forgiven or forgotten but sometimes but we HAVE TO MOVE ON and LET GO ... before we get consumed by it ... girl I let the joker who raped me control my life from his grave for years ... that mess had me so messed up I had to have therapy and I had to learn to let it go .... for my own peace and well being.  I took that past hurt and used it to my advantage .... I took it to outreach and I testify ... 

I have seen many consumed by grudges that are so unfounded and others that do have a reasoning behind it  ... add judgmentalism and personal projections to the mix and it is a recipe for disaster......

Part of forgiving is also to move on ... trust ... I can forgive a joker and never give him another chance to hurt me AGAIN ... I lived through that crap with my ex ...  yet I can be very mindful and sharp enough to take out my long handled spoon before getting hurt again LIFE LESSONS LEARNED ... I would NEVER intentionally hurt someone although inadvertently I may have ... and I most definitely would not hurt a fly even as much as they disgust me ... LOL...

Okay flies I can kill, I really detest flies and they serve no purpose, other bugs not as easy for me to kill.  Yesterday I acidentally dropped my shoe on an ant and felt bad about it, I was hoping he made it but he didn't.  But I digress.  I see no reason to not keep a bucket list of people I don't like with a very valid reason to dislike them, basically it is a too be avoided list.  I have a soft heart and if my father came crying to me again after all he did to me I can tell you I would totally and completely ignore him.  I wrote him a letter explaining what he did and how it made me feel and how it impacted the person I am today.  I was hoping for some sort of response, apology, something, I got a note a Christmas with a check saying to call him.  Yeah, never gonna happen.  You cannot avoid being a parent for 40+ years and then get old and decide hey wait everyone hates me let me look up that daughter I ****** up.  He tried and I looked into the devils eyes and I walked away knowing he is the sick individual and was completely wrong, that nothing I could have done would have made any difference.  The funny part is now he wants to blame his ex wife for abandoing me.  Sorry I was your kid not hers.  Tell you excuses to someone who cares.  He is another person I would not help under any cir****tance.

 Oh that was nice, it's really wonderful.