First off, I want to tell everyone how thankful I am for you encouragement. The last post brought out a lot of great feedback, both good and bad. Thanks so much for taking the time from your day to share with me, I appreciate every single one of you, but not just those who wrote me, I mean those of you reading right now, too. You guys are amazing and I'm a better person because each and every one of you.
Well, this is draft five of this post. I have a lot on my mind and heart right now, and I was a little too real on the previous drafts. I had a definite point I was trying to get across, and I did. Probably a little too well. I know that a lot of my friends would have been offended by it. That would not have been my fault. I was writing another life lessons entry and some of the lessons I was going to post in this one were direct observations of some people close to me. I wasn't pointing them out to be mean to them, but to help others not be in some situations that I've found myself in. I was trying to be helpful, but at the same time, I might have lost some friends. Again, not technically my fault, because all I was doing was pointing out some things that people do that are unhealthy and flat out wrong. If they get offended because I pointed those things out, is that my fault? I don't think so, but nevertheless, I am a humanitarian a heart, so I scrapped the previous drafts.
I had 13 more lessons in this go of life lessons, and out of all of those, I am going to mention two today. The first is this - It is necessary to perform a friend inventory every now and then. Look at your friends and ask, Are they improving your emotional life, or are they hurting it? Are they friends with you for you, or what you can do for them. Often the results of a friend inventory are devastating. Unfortunately, that devastation is usually one-sided. The second one I will mention is #13. It's the same #13 from my first life lessons entry. I am usually right. Again not trying to sound arrogant, but it's true. I am usually right, but even I don't always believe what I know. I know that sounds weird, but I didn't write it wrong. There are things I know for a fact, yet choose not to believe them or ignore them because of how I feel emotionally toward the subject matter. I am the fist to admit that this isn't healthy, but I'm always the first to complain that it's hard to change.
In some blog news, the blog is up to a little over 7,000 subscribers now. I get a crap ton of feedback with each post, and I love it. All of it. The compliments as well as the criticisms. You can't grow as a person if you don't continually inventory yourself first. Some of the worst criticisms I've gotten have turned into some of the best initiative to make a change. Also, I want to address a lot of questions regarding my twitter account. For some reason, everyone is asking me why I don't have more followers. I don't know why the sudden interest, but the answer is simple. I update twitter about once a year, so yeah.
My parting words of wisdom today are: A good friend listens as much as they speak.
Until next time dear readers...
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