"I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it." ~Robert Brault
Often times we can
hear ourselves saying, ‘I am just not like this, I am behaving this way coz of
blah blah blah reasons,…I was such a patient person, I used to be so jovial, I
used to be so positive, I used to a replacement for the word good & excellent!..(Man!)... But, now, I am having to change bcoz my circumstances are like this, bcoz I
am not working, bcoz my health is bad, bcoz my husband doesn’t understand, bcoz
I miss my family and friends, because I don’t get a break from work!’ Yes, I recurrently
speak such stuff. Result, I am only irritating me! Really, I am irritated with myself
for the first time. I gotta accept that if this is what I am saying, for a good
year or more, then it might as well be that I have changed. Indeed,
circumstances do change us. But, isn’t it the ‘Test of life', to go
through these circumstances and not change for the worse?
Yes, it is the truth,
I am a person who has lost a lot of my patience, so I have to term myself impatient. Hard to tag yourself this
way, right? As though, we fear it is gonna become a permanent tag. But, can we not keep
this tag, call the spade a spade and then try to change our game? Yes, change
to the reverse gear and prove it that I was patient. Oh lord, why this denial! Often,
I hear from relatives who are post 50yrs of age that they used to be this and that when
they were young, and mind you, since my birth I wouldn’t have seen them that
way! What are they speaking??? But, before I point towards others, I should be
the first one to bloody accept, right
or wrong reasons, fair or unfair, that, I have changed a lot in bad ways and may
be a little for the good too. So, relieving my own soul, for my own good, I Nitsvitz
accept that I am impatient, I am moody, I am short tempered, I am lazy and few more
things. Yes, Yes, I was not like this before. To hell with that. Haha, but, I
got the reality check ‘on’ now. I know
my hubby will be upset to see I am writing such stuff coz he is too soft on me,
but, hopefully he realizes this step is for my own betterment.