Hello Readers, the fall colors are starting to show around here. I
love the fall. The cool, crisp, fresh evening air. The nippy mornings
that snap your senses to attention as you step out your door to
begin your day. Some people say their favorite season is spring
when everything is fresh, new, and blooming. Myself, I enjoy fall,
shedding off the greens and golds and the flowers because really,
life is not a field full of daisies. To me, fall is the realization that
life keeps moving and ever changing. Some of it pretty, peaceful,
enjoyable, and some of it not as pleasant, a little colder, gloomier.
Afterall, without fall, how would spring be so pretty? It's kind of
like those summer sandals or flip flops you lazily slip your feet in to
as you head out the door to go to the store, run errands or out in
the yard. Fall is the time to put those little flip flops away and take
out something warmer to protect your feet from the cold and the
dampness. Along with the seasons changing, changing my t-shirts to
sweatshirts, my nice summery blouses to pretty sweaters, my flip
flops to warmer casual flats I have decided to change a little
something else. This fall like the fashions have changed, I am
changing my angle a little bit on how I view things and my attitude
towards certain things that tend to bring my ugly side out. Yes
readers, Gracie's got a new pair of shoes so to speak.
I have posted things in the past when I was really angry and hurt
over certain situations in my hometown. I guess you could call them
my political viewpoints or just plain dislike for the behavior of the
politicians in my hometown. In addressing things I so strongly
disagreed with things got very ugly. I never could have imagined
that writing something and addressing a topic once and putting my
opinion out there once, would bring such a wrath of hatred upon me.
Where I and Wolfeagle spoke out in an article a handful of
individuals have repeatedly posted some pretty nasty and ugly
things about us and our personal life. Well of course this has us
pretty upset and all we honestly felt we were doing was giving our
opinion about public officials and their decisions in their public
position that effects the public. For doing this, our personal life,
our personalities, our integrity, the very people we are has been
publicly posted on the internet in the most ugliest and nastiest
manner. The people that have done this I must say are very good at
being hateful, ugly, rude, and I wish I could think of so many more
words that describe mean but there just aren't enough!
(Attempting to laugh at this moment). In all of the internet warfare
that I was trying to be diplomatic through and while engaging with
people that had one intent and that was of personally hurting
Wolfeagle and me I learned a great deal.
When you give a public opinion about a public official in a small
town, you better be ready to receive retaliation and receive it from
all angles and in all forms. I honestly never thought about people
getting angry back at me because I feel as though I see things the
way they are. I am of, what I would like to believe is, above average
intelligence, I do know how to be objective, and I always try to
keep an open mind. When you have come to the same conclusion
over and over then you must be honest with yourself if you want
people to respect you and your opinion. However, just because you
are upset when you express your opinion and someone disagrees
with you, what do you do when someone just won't back off and
becomes disrespectful, almost hostile towards you? When you ask
them to just agree to disagree and that is not good enough and
they want to continue to punish you because they feel you did
something wrong in their eyes when you stated something
unfavorable about them or someone they happen to like? Do you
continue to try diplomacy with these people who will not back off
and continue to be hostile and get even uglier in their attack on you
and your personal life. Do you just tell them to "go to hell"? Oh I
wanted to tell these people more than "go to hell" but you know
what, I didn't. I walked away. You cannot make someone agree with
you just because you think they should and you cannot convince
someone to be nice to you, especially when they don't think they
should. The only thing I could control was how I reacted. Obviously,
if I am trying to state my position and all they want to do is call me
"scum" then how am I to even reason with this person. The point is,
I couldn't reason with this person. So, I slipped on my "walk away"
shoes and left them alone with their opinion of me and I walked
away with my head held high because I did not attack them
personally, I only disagreed with their opinion. I did not take an
opinion on politics and turn it into something personal, ugly and
hurtful. And let me tell you, as I walked away from the situation, I
with all my heart knew I had every right to walk away with my head
held high and that is just what I did.
Do you know what the person I had the disagreement with is still
doing today? They are still posting ugly things, but they are not
controlling the situation or me. I know longer get upset because I
don't allow them to upset me because the person or the issue was
not valuable enough for me to get in over my head with. I walked
away and I find that the ugly things they still say to this very day
about Wolfeagle and I do not bother me because I simply do not
allow this ugly hateful person to bring THEIR ugliness into MY life.
I got a new pair of shoes and man they feel great. Take care
everyone.
love the fall. The cool, crisp, fresh evening air. The nippy mornings
that snap your senses to attention as you step out your door to
begin your day. Some people say their favorite season is spring
when everything is fresh, new, and blooming. Myself, I enjoy fall,
shedding off the greens and golds and the flowers because really,
life is not a field full of daisies. To me, fall is the realization that
life keeps moving and ever changing. Some of it pretty, peaceful,
enjoyable, and some of it not as pleasant, a little colder, gloomier.
Afterall, without fall, how would spring be so pretty? It's kind of
like those summer sandals or flip flops you lazily slip your feet in to
as you head out the door to go to the store, run errands or out in
the yard. Fall is the time to put those little flip flops away and take
out something warmer to protect your feet from the cold and the
dampness. Along with the seasons changing, changing my t-shirts to
sweatshirts, my nice summery blouses to pretty sweaters, my flip
flops to warmer casual flats I have decided to change a little
something else. This fall like the fashions have changed, I am
changing my angle a little bit on how I view things and my attitude
towards certain things that tend to bring my ugly side out. Yes
readers, Gracie's got a new pair of shoes so to speak.
I have posted things in the past when I was really angry and hurt
over certain situations in my hometown. I guess you could call them
my political viewpoints or just plain dislike for the behavior of the
politicians in my hometown. In addressing things I so strongly
disagreed with things got very ugly. I never could have imagined
that writing something and addressing a topic once and putting my
opinion out there once, would bring such a wrath of hatred upon me.
Where I and Wolfeagle spoke out in an article a handful of
individuals have repeatedly posted some pretty nasty and ugly
things about us and our personal life. Well of course this has us
pretty upset and all we honestly felt we were doing was giving our
opinion about public officials and their decisions in their public
position that effects the public. For doing this, our personal life,
our personalities, our integrity, the very people we are has been
publicly posted on the internet in the most ugliest and nastiest
manner. The people that have done this I must say are very good at
being hateful, ugly, rude, and I wish I could think of so many more
words that describe mean but there just aren't enough!
(Attempting to laugh at this moment). In all of the internet warfare
that I was trying to be diplomatic through and while engaging with
people that had one intent and that was of personally hurting
Wolfeagle and me I learned a great deal.
When you give a public opinion about a public official in a small
town, you better be ready to receive retaliation and receive it from
all angles and in all forms. I honestly never thought about people
getting angry back at me because I feel as though I see things the
way they are. I am of, what I would like to believe is, above average
intelligence, I do know how to be objective, and I always try to
keep an open mind. When you have come to the same conclusion
over and over then you must be honest with yourself if you want
people to respect you and your opinion. However, just because you
are upset when you express your opinion and someone disagrees
with you, what do you do when someone just won't back off and
becomes disrespectful, almost hostile towards you? When you ask
them to just agree to disagree and that is not good enough and
they want to continue to punish you because they feel you did
something wrong in their eyes when you stated something
unfavorable about them or someone they happen to like? Do you
continue to try diplomacy with these people who will not back off
and continue to be hostile and get even uglier in their attack on you
and your personal life. Do you just tell them to "go to hell"? Oh I
wanted to tell these people more than "go to hell" but you know
what, I didn't. I walked away. You cannot make someone agree with
you just because you think they should and you cannot convince
someone to be nice to you, especially when they don't think they
should. The only thing I could control was how I reacted. Obviously,
if I am trying to state my position and all they want to do is call me
"scum" then how am I to even reason with this person. The point is,
I couldn't reason with this person. So, I slipped on my "walk away"
shoes and left them alone with their opinion of me and I walked
away with my head held high because I did not attack them
personally, I only disagreed with their opinion. I did not take an
opinion on politics and turn it into something personal, ugly and
hurtful. And let me tell you, as I walked away from the situation, I
with all my heart knew I had every right to walk away with my head
held high and that is just what I did.
Do you know what the person I had the disagreement with is still
doing today? They are still posting ugly things, but they are not
controlling the situation or me. I know longer get upset because I
don't allow them to upset me because the person or the issue was
not valuable enough for me to get in over my head with. I walked
away and I find that the ugly things they still say to this very day
about Wolfeagle and I do not bother me because I simply do not
allow this ugly hateful person to bring THEIR ugliness into MY life.
I got a new pair of shoes and man they feel great. Take care
everyone.
| Trying on a New Pair of Shoes By "Gracie" |
| Gracie's |
| Gripes, Griefs, and Gratitude |
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