Conversation – 15

@mightymouse,

I know you are on vacation and then some just wanted to say Happy New Year and I can’t
wait until TWD returns. 🙂 You were so much fun and informative with your knowledge of
the show true it is not for everyone but I like it and so do a lot of people. Thank you for
being with me during a difficult time I think you will remember it yeah I was feeling pretty
down. I did not mean to scare you. All the best to you and hubby. 🙂 See you in 2019!

You and hubby. 🙂

@bassettebabe,

Happy New Year I am thinking of you I know this year have been tough on you with your
health issues and just about all of us have had them. I hope 2019 finds you strong and healthy.
Prayers and Blessings to you and your husband. 🙂 I love it when you drop in. Be well friend. 🙂
I hope you see it but if it gets lost I will always put up another one. 🙂

Goodnight Peeps!

Happy New Year to all that read this thread. I am not going to write a speech I think
I prove who I am every single day. Blessings to everyone in 2019 I mean that. 🙂

This is my New Year’s Wish.

Happy New Year and enjoy some Sparkling Grape Juice. ♥

Yes, I want to beam you down here to make you tea and sit on the patio enjoying the warmth of the breeze. Felt good enough to pull myself together to put on tinted moisturizer and lipstick and casual, easy clothes. Do not want to overdo so we may go get zero-point, chemical-laden yogurt after take in dinner. Want not to louse everything up for tomorrow night for SIL and BIL and Jerry. Plan to be home before any fireworks to cuddle Ari.

Yes, this is a morning and evening malady. After this I won’t want to look at Chicken Soup for awhile.

Twilight Zone. I was raised on it. The Rod Serling episodes? He was a genius who left us way too young. I have some of those episodes memorized.

4 all in the HSN Community. ♥ Happy New Year!

@taci,

Enjoy the hike today. We are cold today but I did do my walk. ♥ I am glad your food
was delish with the family. ♥

Sending a little snow your way. 🙂

Judging Others

To acknowledge that we have judged and why, is the first step to a path of compassion.

Though it is human to evaluate people we encounter based on first impressions, the conclusions we come to are seldom unaffected by our own fears and our own preconceptions. Additionally, our judgments are frequently incomplete. For example, wealth can seem like proof that an individual is spoiled, and poverty can be seen as a signifier of laziness–neither of which may be true. At the heart of the tendency to categorize and criticize, we often find insecurity. Overcoming our need to set ourselves apart from what we fear is a matter of understanding the root of judgment and then reaffirming our commitment to tolerance.

When we catch ourselves thinking or behaving judgmentally, we should ask ourselves where these judgments come from. Traits we hope we do not possess can instigate our criticism when we see them in others because passing judgment distances us from those traits. Once we regain our center, we can reinforce our open-mindedness by putting our feelings into words. To acknowledge to ourselves that we have judged, and that we have identified the root of our judgments, is the first step to a path of compassion. Recognizing that we limit our awareness by assessing others critically can make moving past our initial impressions much easier. Judgments seldom leave room for alternate possibilities.

Mother Teresa said, “If you judge people, you don’t have time to love them.” If we are quick to pass judgment on others, we forget that they, like us, are human beings. As we seldom know what roads people have traveled before a shared encounter or why they have come into our lives, we should always give those we meet the gift of an open heart. Doing so allows us to replace fear-based criticism with appreciation because we can then focus wholeheartedly on the spark of good that burns in all human souls.

@loaf,

I hope your MIL had a great Birthday. I have left some posts for her for you to see just
scroll down. I hope you are having a great Sunday. How are the grandkids? Thinking of
you Loaf and Happy New Year. 🙂 I love the name Bella for your new puppy. 🙂

Enjoy this with your family. ♥

@bichon18,

I hope you are feeling somewhat better today. I have noticed when I awake I am at my
worse then it ebbs off during the day but at night it comes back. Shizzle!!!

Soup again today and I am fine with that. How is little Ari? Amy you are lucky to live
in Florida at least you can be outside in the sunshine. We will be fine. I will be on and off
today. I hope you and Jerry are having a good weekend. Have you ever watched the
Twilight Zone? I am drinking some hot tea now.

Enjoy,

xoxo,

Sheba