I very strongly remember walking up to doors, only to meet Fido there – with ‘that look.’
Ya know.. the lips slowly quivering apart.. teeth shown… that impending “I’m gonna attack your person any second” look.
That’s the way uh huh uh huh.. no, that ain’t it. That’s the way (the snarl look) I feel sometimes when in silent (or aloud) battle with Republicans, Jayhawk fans or management. Or, that feel when the TV at home is turned to Fox news.. (I DO love you though girlfriend!).. I like ‘em, all of ‘em, don’t get me wrong – it’s just that we have our occasional baby ‘battles’.
So where the hell does Pogo come into this then? Glad you asked. I rode into work today, admonishing myself for something or other – and the phrase “I have met the enemy” came to my head. I do occasionally argue with Repubs, Hawks, Mgmnt – but I always come out needing a double dose of my high blood pressure medicine – so I’ve tried to curtail those wincing moments. Oh yeah, Pogo.
After “I have met the enemy” went thru my brain – I Googled it ‘cause I wasn’t sure who’d said it. Turns out, on Earth Day 1970, the cartoon character Pogo said “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Yes, that’s right. Pub, Hawks, Mgmnt aside – we are our own worst enemy and I am highly guilty. I can let a ‘one blurt’ error ruin a weekend, my stomach, my grinding teeth and even wipe out any potential emotional uplift.
Imagine if you will, an idiot standing at the clothesline with a baseball bat – a filthy carpet hanging on the line – and he’s beating the heck outta the carpet with his bat - dirt plastering him in the face. That’s me, fighting me upon occasion. We would defriend anyone else that treated us like that, so why do we treat ourselves so badly? Inquiring (hurting) minds want to know? I know this, it can be self –fulfilling.
I don’t have answers, but I can peek. One guy writes “You’re a fantastic person on an exciting journey, in the middle of creating a life that you want. If I were you, I wouldn’t put up with that negative voice in your head. You deserve better.”
Another adds “Beating yourself up over something dumb means that you associate a negative experience with it, so if it's a behavior that you'd rather avoid, this may be an effective technique for changing your behavior. To a point, it can be a good thing since it shows that you're Beating yourself up over something dumb means that you associate a negative experience with it, so if it's a behavior that you'd rather avoid, this may be an effective technique for changing your behavior.” Prolly not the best answer..
You know, the great thing about doing a blog no one reads is you can plag… plage.. ahm, plagia.. plagiarise.. damnit.. you can copy what other people say and not notate ‘em. Ha! S’more:
So the real reason why we beat ourselves up. In all honesty, I can't know for sure. But what I do know, is that accepting it can lead to a world free of negativity. And from an objective point of view I believe a negativity free world is the best world there is. Why choose pain above happiness, or hatred above love?
Remember to stay in the moment, don't try to replay the past or get into the "What if I had done that?" Yesterday is gone...........Leave it in the past.
It’s me again.. So, hopefully me learning, and anyone else that wants to hop on this float.. becoming aware of these negative thoughts.. squeezing them out.. hopefully into the future I can do that. I am human hear me roar. Yes, teeth gritted occasionally – but usually at me. You’re correct Pogo. I suppose, ya know Repubs – we need those checks and balances. We just can’t drown in ‘em.
I reckon in life, most everything can be solved (except those gosh darn math questions with the +, x, parenthesis, divided by stuff) by simply analyzing the problem, and discovering a solution by one’s self.
Perhaps simply admitting a fault is half the battle, using battle for lack of a better term. So… next time I’m gonna spray my dirty carpet with Fabreeze inteada beating the hell out of it with a baseball bat.
Happy day, (even you Repubs, Jayhawks, Management, Hannity), Victurd
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