Why is it that if you don’t get in people’s face, if you don’t walk around trying to be brash and confrontational people look at you as weak, like your a door mat? Just because someone chooses their battles and isn’t willing to get into an argument over just any topic they a wimp? Since when did kindness and being chivalrous and even forgiving become bad things? I mean there are times where I want to rip the people around me a new one, that I want nothing more than to lose my temper, to scream, yell and make my point known but its not worth what it would do to the people around me. As much as I might want to say my piece, I know that my thoughts, my words would hurt those people that I care the most about.. so its better for me to keep my mouth shut, to pick only the battles that are truly deeply important to me instead of going off and needlessly, senselessly hurting the feelings of the people I would give my life to protect and see happy and successful. Maybe that is weakness, maybe that makes me a door mat, maybe it makes me a better man, I honestly don’t know. What I do know is that at the end of every day I’m the one that has to stand at the sink and look in the mirror at myself and be ok with the choices I’ve made and the things I’ve said… I know that it means more to me and is more fulfilling, and often more painful, to keep my mouth quiet from saying the things I most long to say because it would be selfish to utter the words. They won’t make the person they are spoken to feel any better, they just make me feel better.
Here are today’s quotes…
“In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightengale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.” – Ambrose Bierce
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of oposition, to stand up for it.” – A. A. Hodge