I love my friends who are confident and secure in who they are, their family, situation etc. No longer am I going to let anyone "get to me". I LOVE my life. I LOVE my husband, kids, family and closest friends. I am BLESSED. My Mom forward the following in an email to me this morning and it was like a light bulb went off.
"To all the kids who survived the
1930's. 40's, 50's, 60's and '70's:
1930's. 40's, 50's, 60's and '70's:
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,
locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants and children we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, seat belts or air bags. The tires were bald and sometimes there were no brakes.
Riding in the back of a truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared soft drinks with four friends from one bottle and one one actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon.
We drank Kool-Aid made with real, white sugar. And we weren't overweight. WHY?
Because we were always outside playing!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day...and were were okay!
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode them down the hill only to find out we forgot brakes! After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Nintendo's, Playstations, and XBox's. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no videos, movies or DVD's. No surround-sound or CD's. No cell phones, no personal computers, no internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS! And we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cute, broke bones and teeth. And there were no lawsuits from those accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team! Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem-solvers and inventors ever. The past 50 years there has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and we learned how to deal with all of it.
If you are one of them, then congratulations! You might want to share this with others who had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives 'for our own good'.
While you are at it, forward this to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
'With hurricanes, tornadoes and fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, sever thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of swine flu, and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us, go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass this on.
A small prayer:
God determines who walks into your life...it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay and who you refuse to let go.
When there is nothing left but God, that's when you realize that God is all you need.
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