About two minutes after pressing the PUBLISH button on my rant yesterday, I was included in a private Facebook note which someone much like me decided to put out into the universe. Struggling with midlife issues, while very politically minded and frustrated with the state of the world today, he has finally realized that he is also the happiest he has been in his life. He suggested that we all need to take a break from the daily barrage of bad news we see in social media, from our own thoughts of despair and frustration with the way things are, and a midst all the chaos of this life, remember that most people are good and we really do have many reasons to be happy and should remember to project our gratitude and our joy in relation to all the good things in our life so that we don't appear jaded and feel lousy on the inside.
Oops. I had been furious over the past 3 days, writing yesterday's rant. I was being judgmental of a whole religion because of the actions of one rich fundamentalist Christian congregation in Texas, wasn't I? I was being hypocritical and angry and ungrateful. I've really gotta watch that. After all, I'm only human. But, through friends, both old and new, I'm learning every day.
Oops. I had been furious over the past 3 days, writing yesterday's rant. I was being judgmental of a whole religion because of the actions of one rich fundamentalist Christian congregation in Texas, wasn't I? I was being hypocritical and angry and ungrateful. I've really gotta watch that. After all, I'm only human. But, through friends, both old and new, I'm learning every day.
Today, I received a Word Press Daily Digest email suggesting that "Long form Posts" (read: very long, non-brief, wordy, wordy, wordy posts) should receive a tag indicating them as such so people who are interested can read them when they know they have a bit more time! :-D. One thing I've always had a problem with in my writing is brevity. In a college writing course way back in the horse and buggy days, my professor would give me my papers back over and over, asking me to condense, condense, condense. I would ultimately get a decent grade and good commentary, but not before a lot of drafting and redrafting; trying to say what I want to say with fewer words. I guess this WP Daily Digest note came a little too late for yesterday's rant. I will try harder to draft, reread, condense, draft, reread, draft, condense, and so on....... LOL
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