March has come in like a lion. Like an ass-whuppin’ sadistic, son-of-a-gun angry lion. And the whining is deafening.
Instead of standing up to March and saying, “Yeah, bring it,” most people are crying to their shrinks about how sad and weary they are.
People we’re all sad and weary. It’s been one of the longest, crappiest winters in history. Just ask Janice Huff.
But the fact is, we’re not on the news. Know who’s on the news? Japan. Japan is on the news. Plane crashes are on the news. Tidal waves, earthquakes and disease are on the news. (And Janice Huff is on the news, but she’s a meteorologist.)
You’re not on the news. So stand up, go outside and get some exercise. Stop looking at the ground and griping about the mud. Look at the sky, which for once isn’t dropping buckets of frozen precipitation on our heads, and take in the fact that you can breathe and dance and drink fresh water by turning on a tap. (Unless there is fracking near you.)
You’re not on the news, people. Things are looking up.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Monday, June 28, 2010
The "Not My Fault" Game
The “Not My Fault Game” happens when you pretend you don’t have control over your own affairs. It often sounds like this, “You didn’t wake me up on time!” “You didn’t pack the toothpaste!” “You didn’t remind me that your crazy family was visiting this weekend.”
Here’s another example:
You look outside and say to yourself, “Hmm, it sure does look like rain.” But you don’t trust your instincts so you switch on The Weather Channel, but The Weather Channel is too busy playing scary music and pondering what would happen if a hurricane hit Kansas that they don’t mention your local forecast. At all.
So even though you think it looks like rain, you don’t “burden” yourself with an umbrella because the TV didn’t tell you to. Then, when you get drenched in a torrential downpour you’re mad at the weather person. You blame The Weather Channel because you were too lazy to think for yourself and take an umbrella on a day when it looks like it’s going to rain!
People, keep track of your own schedule. Balance your bankbook. Grab an umbrella. Follow your instincts and stop sloughing your responsibility onto other people. Step up to the plate and think for yourself.
Here’s another example:
You look outside and say to yourself, “Hmm, it sure does look like rain.” But you don’t trust your instincts so you switch on The Weather Channel, but The Weather Channel is too busy playing scary music and pondering what would happen if a hurricane hit Kansas that they don’t mention your local forecast. At all.
So even though you think it looks like rain, you don’t “burden” yourself with an umbrella because the TV didn’t tell you to. Then, when you get drenched in a torrential downpour you’re mad at the weather person. You blame The Weather Channel because you were too lazy to think for yourself and take an umbrella on a day when it looks like it’s going to rain!
People, keep track of your own schedule. Balance your bankbook. Grab an umbrella. Follow your instincts and stop sloughing your responsibility onto other people. Step up to the plate and think for yourself.
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