I'm tired Boss... Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to one another.
One of my B's sent me that in a private message the other day. I don't know if she knew exactly how exhausted I was, I don't know if she could feel the pain in my heart and the exhaustion in my very soul. But I am thankful that she sent it. It perfectly summed up my feelings.
I strive so hard to treat other's as I want to be treated. I will celebrate you, I will treat you with respect, I will do anything I can to make your path an easier one to walk. I will not judge you. I will absorb the hurt you choose to give out, and still be there to pick you up when you fall. Because I believe firmly that in this life that what we put out there is what comes back.
I will take your call in the middle of the night, even though there are many times that I need that person in my life to find that no one is there. I have Hubs. I know if I reached out to the B's, they would be there for me. But oddly the people that I support and lift up the most are the ones that do the most damage to me personally.
It's been a rough week. I'm exhausted. Mentally, physically and mostly emotionally. I am drained. I have nothing left to give up to anyone.
If I could I would lock my doors, turn off my phone and put up a wall the size of a mountain.
I can't.
Somewhere in all the half truths and misdirecting words there is a balance. Somewhere out there are people that have the emotional intelligence to be honest and not wrap it in deceit because they know that hurtfulness is not the way to say things. That you can share your heart, feelings, ideas and concerns from a place of love and it will be okay.
That simply being kind and honest is a welcome thing.
How did we become a world where we've forgotten that it's okay to be different, that it's okay to not see eye to eye on anything or everything and still be kind?
I'm tired.
I wrote that a week ago today. While I was feeling hurt, devastated, drained and at my lowest. It's been a week. There have been important conversations and life is completely different.
Last week, during a highly emotional time, when my little family should have been celebrating the greatest miracle our little Panda's arrival. We were being played by someone that never had that right. Instead of having wonderful homecoming memories, we are the proud owners of hurt and pain.
A million times over the course of this week as I have sorted through my feelings about the situation that occurred and been angry at the callous selfish behavior that caused it, I have thought of a million different ways to respond.
We can never regain what was stolen from us. The hurt was intention... to teach everyone a lesson. Tell a truth that we "needed to hear". Sadly, truth tellers with evil hearts should probably insure they have all their facts straight before they meddle.
Hubs and I will never again be able to recapture being part of Panda's homecoming. Nothing can erase the brutal words that were spewed forth... in the name of honesty (really?). New parents were left sitting for hours, prepared for a celebration that only one person knew they had "planned" but was never going to happen. Anxiety was high, tears flowed, hatred festered.
All for what? Truthfully, I have spent a week trying to figure it out. I have tried during those quiet intimate hours of alone time, to sort out what kind of person could do that. And then ride off into the sunset, mission accomplished, pain, chaos and disarray left in the dust.
I don't have an answer. What I have is faith that we raised wonderful children and we are focused on loving each other and being there for each other. We don't lie to one another, we don't hide behind falsehoods. We talk things out.
We hug and we move forward.
Love is far more powerful than lies, half-truths and I hate to say it, but... manipulative bullshit.
Last night rocking my sweet new Panda, while my mini-me was staying with friends and mom was having a moment to catch her breath. I forgave.
Now, forgiving and forgetting are two separate things. I forgave, because that was for me. I will not allow the hatefulness to stain the love I have for my children and their children, their partners and friends.
The one that did this... Forgiveness does not change the fact that it was a final straw.
I can't change that person. Nor will I try. Karma will take care of that. For decades I have allowed that person to be hateful and mean to myself and others. Always listening to the "they need to hear the truth" line and choosing to be silent. To walk away injured or aware of another person injured to avoid the wraith that everyone knows comes when you cross that person.
I spent years away from my family after being told "none of us even want you here, you only cause trouble". I heard the bitter, hateful words spewed at other loved ones. All in the name of truth and "tough love". I didn't take a stand.
I won't say I'm not feeling bitter, because I am, but in forgiveness comes peace. Mini-me and Panda are going to be our partners in crime for the balance of our days. My girl and I are stronger than ever due to the hurt inflicted. Hubs and I are blessed with the family that we have and strong enough to stand up to any storm.
Sadly, the result is that while I am a slow learner, I am not stupid. I do learn. An unending ability to understand and reason out another's actions, well... evidently it is not unending.
It ended. Last Sunday was the final straw. I have warned the appropriate people that I will not be involved with that person again. That they are not welcome in my home nor will I attend anything they are at. I started to waiver, until I found out that when confronted with their actions their response was an arrogant "they needed to hear the truth".
Nope, sorry. "Truth" is always a gray area depending on the conversation, the people involved and the first hand knowledge of the situation. And then it is still gray. No one has the right to destroy based on their version of the "truth".
I'm starting to feel this burst in my own personal bubble is very reflective of what is happening far too often in our world as a whole.
How many times do each of us react to situations based on some version of "the truth". When in reality the only people that truly know are the ones intimately involved and yet, it is still tainted by their perception of the circumstances?
How many times are people with their own agenda's destroying others simply because it isn't working out the way they want it to?
Do we often step away from the situation long enough to take a deep look at what is being presented to us? Or do we react out of anger, hurt of fear?
Does the misrepresentation of facts, with holding of information, and deceitful behavior taint reality for us?
I feel like it does. I know in my personal bubble it cause terrible chaos, hurt, tears, and almost life long damage. We can't unwind the clock, there isn't going to be a do over. How often is that happening on a local, national and international scale.
How often are malicious people taking our fears and twisting them around to cause hatred, pain and more fears that suit their purpose? Is it something as small as someone that you should be able to trust, "sharing" with you that the people you love and would lay your life down for don't really like you, that they wish you would stay out of their lives? Or is it something as grand as on a local, national and global level that people are painting that kind of hurt between any factions they can, because hurt and pain feed on hurt and pain.
I don't have answers.
What I have is the ability to distance myself. For how long, I don't know. Until it isn't a sore, red, gaping wound that is too large to bandage. Until I can look in Hubs eyes and not see the devastation and hurt that I still see lingering at the edges. Until I can't hear the ragged tone of his voice, echoing in my heart, that screamed "I guess I am just a 'step-father' and not a good one at that", until I know longer hear my girls asking "what did we do so wrong that you weren't there"... I don't know that forgiveness can make that day ever come.
What I have learned from it all is to question always. Not just in my personal life, but in my outside life as well.
Because sometimes that person reaching out that helping hand, they don't want to help. They saw an opportunity to change you and they are going to do their level best to do just that. Are you tired, down, lonely, sad, stressed, feeling unsure? That person is waiting for that moment in time. I won't be giving it to them again.
And if you think I will always stay quietly in the corner and not say anything... think again. Sometimes people mistake silence for weakness. I promise I am not weak.
I wrote that a week ago today. While I was feeling hurt, devastated, drained and at my lowest. It's been a week. There have been important conversations and life is completely different.
Last week, during a highly emotional time, when my little family should have been celebrating the greatest miracle our little Panda's arrival. We were being played by someone that never had that right. Instead of having wonderful homecoming memories, we are the proud owners of hurt and pain.
A million times over the course of this week as I have sorted through my feelings about the situation that occurred and been angry at the callous selfish behavior that caused it, I have thought of a million different ways to respond.
We can never regain what was stolen from us. The hurt was intention... to teach everyone a lesson. Tell a truth that we "needed to hear". Sadly, truth tellers with evil hearts should probably insure they have all their facts straight before they meddle.
Hubs and I will never again be able to recapture being part of Panda's homecoming. Nothing can erase the brutal words that were spewed forth... in the name of honesty (really?). New parents were left sitting for hours, prepared for a celebration that only one person knew they had "planned" but was never going to happen. Anxiety was high, tears flowed, hatred festered.
All for what? Truthfully, I have spent a week trying to figure it out. I have tried during those quiet intimate hours of alone time, to sort out what kind of person could do that. And then ride off into the sunset, mission accomplished, pain, chaos and disarray left in the dust.
I don't have an answer. What I have is faith that we raised wonderful children and we are focused on loving each other and being there for each other. We don't lie to one another, we don't hide behind falsehoods. We talk things out.
We hug and we move forward.
Love is far more powerful than lies, half-truths and I hate to say it, but... manipulative bullshit.
Last night rocking my sweet new Panda, while my mini-me was staying with friends and mom was having a moment to catch her breath. I forgave.
Now, forgiving and forgetting are two separate things. I forgave, because that was for me. I will not allow the hatefulness to stain the love I have for my children and their children, their partners and friends.
The one that did this... Forgiveness does not change the fact that it was a final straw.
I can't change that person. Nor will I try. Karma will take care of that. For decades I have allowed that person to be hateful and mean to myself and others. Always listening to the "they need to hear the truth" line and choosing to be silent. To walk away injured or aware of another person injured to avoid the wraith that everyone knows comes when you cross that person.
I spent years away from my family after being told "none of us even want you here, you only cause trouble". I heard the bitter, hateful words spewed at other loved ones. All in the name of truth and "tough love". I didn't take a stand.
I won't say I'm not feeling bitter, because I am, but in forgiveness comes peace. Mini-me and Panda are going to be our partners in crime for the balance of our days. My girl and I are stronger than ever due to the hurt inflicted. Hubs and I are blessed with the family that we have and strong enough to stand up to any storm.
Sadly, the result is that while I am a slow learner, I am not stupid. I do learn. An unending ability to understand and reason out another's actions, well... evidently it is not unending.
It ended. Last Sunday was the final straw. I have warned the appropriate people that I will not be involved with that person again. That they are not welcome in my home nor will I attend anything they are at. I started to waiver, until I found out that when confronted with their actions their response was an arrogant "they needed to hear the truth".
Nope, sorry. "Truth" is always a gray area depending on the conversation, the people involved and the first hand knowledge of the situation. And then it is still gray. No one has the right to destroy based on their version of the "truth".
I'm starting to feel this burst in my own personal bubble is very reflective of what is happening far too often in our world as a whole.
How many times do each of us react to situations based on some version of "the truth". When in reality the only people that truly know are the ones intimately involved and yet, it is still tainted by their perception of the circumstances?
How many times are people with their own agenda's destroying others simply because it isn't working out the way they want it to?
Do we often step away from the situation long enough to take a deep look at what is being presented to us? Or do we react out of anger, hurt of fear?
Does the misrepresentation of facts, with holding of information, and deceitful behavior taint reality for us?
I feel like it does. I know in my personal bubble it cause terrible chaos, hurt, tears, and almost life long damage. We can't unwind the clock, there isn't going to be a do over. How often is that happening on a local, national and international scale.
How often are malicious people taking our fears and twisting them around to cause hatred, pain and more fears that suit their purpose? Is it something as small as someone that you should be able to trust, "sharing" with you that the people you love and would lay your life down for don't really like you, that they wish you would stay out of their lives? Or is it something as grand as on a local, national and global level that people are painting that kind of hurt between any factions they can, because hurt and pain feed on hurt and pain.
I don't have answers.
What I have is the ability to distance myself. For how long, I don't know. Until it isn't a sore, red, gaping wound that is too large to bandage. Until I can look in Hubs eyes and not see the devastation and hurt that I still see lingering at the edges. Until I can't hear the ragged tone of his voice, echoing in my heart, that screamed "I guess I am just a 'step-father' and not a good one at that", until I know longer hear my girls asking "what did we do so wrong that you weren't there"... I don't know that forgiveness can make that day ever come.
What I have learned from it all is to question always. Not just in my personal life, but in my outside life as well.
Because sometimes that person reaching out that helping hand, they don't want to help. They saw an opportunity to change you and they are going to do their level best to do just that. Are you tired, down, lonely, sad, stressed, feeling unsure? That person is waiting for that moment in time. I won't be giving it to them again.
And if you think I will always stay quietly in the corner and not say anything... think again. Sometimes people mistake silence for weakness. I promise I am not weak.
I'm tired Boss... Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to one another.
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