Words

We all have that one friend. That one person whom wants to sound so mature and smart, but falls just short of the mark and sounds stupid and awkward instead. You know that one. They want you to know how smart they are, so they act smart. Except, they're not really that smart because they believe they are smart- and that's just counter productive to what they are doing altogether. 

They tend to do this with the 'big' vocabulary. Oh dear. This is what they sound like:

"While preambling in the adjacent tenantal abode, I had the happenstance to encounter such a factitious and whimsical occurrence of a deplorable latitude that I adjudicated my retrocedance forthwith."

People sputter nonsense all the time. I feel the same about people who throw around "I love you." 

ACK!

Words are important. They have meanings. Those meanings are important.

Let's look at forever and always. Same meaning? Or similar meaning? Hmmm...

Can you interchange them? Should you?

Forever: adverb

1. for a limitless amount of time

2. for a very long or seemingly endless time

3. without interruption

Always: adverb

1. at all times, all the time and on every occasion

2. without change or variation, in every case

3. at any time or in any event

They seem different now, don't they. It's important. Really, it is. Forever and always... it means something. 

Be careful with your words.

All things in perspective

With Mother's Day so close, everyone is talking about moms. Of course they are. It's a day just for them.

What about those people who don't have moms, or good moms? What if ones mom was horrible and they live as far away from them as possible? What do you celebrate?

Celebrate the type of mother that you want to have, want to be, or could have been. Or it could be the type you have/are/were. Mother's Day is a day to be thankful that we are here. We are alive. Someone chose not to abort you. You survived this long. There is always someone worse off than you. It's true. Thank you.

No one is going to be perfect. We don't have to be miserable, either. Strive for the best. Be the Proverbs 31 lady as much as you can. It's a high standard. We were made to achieve so much more than we're giving now.

Softball

Red is playing softball for the first time. She hates it. She hates standing in the outfield. She hates having to sit on the bench. She hates batting. She does love one thing- the friends that she made while she was there.

Hubs and I told Red that she could not quit. It wasn't an option. It's not fair to the team or herself. She may not like things that come up in her life, but I want to teach her that there is positives. She tried something new. She stuck with it, despite her not liking it or it being hard. She made new friends. Never give up.

Endure. Withstand. Believe.

This is how we grow in life.

and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean.
 ~Numbers 31:23a

How we deal with the trials that are set before us is what makes us or breaks us. If you walk through with God, you may be broken, but you will emerge stronger on the other side. So strong, that the fire can no longer touch you.

Such is life

I just wrote some really nice things about my family: Hubs, Oldest,  Middle, and Red. I got all the way to the end.

Then

***POOF***

it was all gone.

Because I don't want to type all that over right now, this is what you get.

Haiku- Ken

Ken

People suck sometimes.
Corruption seeps from their pores.
That is all. Goodnight.

Conspiracy Theories

Enter: A 5 second scene of a guy laughing... his child was just brutally killed by an insane man. He must be an actor! Forget that the whole entire clip was voiced over and words were covering his face until that precise moment that the makers of the 'film' want you to see. It played on emotions. "I would never laugh if my kid was just killed." "How can he laugh if his kid is dead?" Ay-yi-yi, people!

Go to a funeral home. People are smiling and laughing. Are they happy that someone they cared about is dead? Of course not! Life continues, mourning comes in spurts, everyone mourns differently, and (here's the kicker) try to reminisce about someone you love without smiling. You can't. Step away from the emotions. Try using logic in these cases. It's a completely different scenario.

P.S. Why in the world would you even listen to a guy- even for a split second- that claimed that the government faked Hurricane Sandy and the destruction it caused, even going as far as claiming the government MADE Hurricane Sandy? (Yeah, I looked him up. Did you?) Like the contradiction? His video was full of them.

Do I believe the government is shooting up schoolrooms to get a gun bill passed? No! Then why all the gun lobbyists? It's called 'moment of opportunity'. If you see something horrific and it happens to play into what you're selling- grab a hold of it, tight! Does the government keep secrets? Oh, yeah. It's called "National Security" and I really don't want to know what they know. You know.

Genesis

This is my Genesis, my beginnings, my start.

Starting something of this magnitude is a major thing to an INTJ. We're private people. We're quiet people.

I've recently have become reacquainted with my personality type. This time, I embraced it. My mind is constantly twirling, gyrating, rippling, and weaving. Links that most people have never thought about belonging together connect in my head.

We are often perceived as strange.