Many of you know I am a wife and mother of three little demons, I mean angels. And one of those angels is a teenager, with hormones!!!!!!!!!! And he seems to have a few of his hormone influenced friends over at any given time. Then there are the two suspects, as I call them, my two youngest, a girl 9 and a boy 8 . I call them suspects because it take several interegations to determine who did what, so you have to call them suspects until it is proven who did what. This is not an easy task for the most seasoned and trained parent...... it can get down right exhausting. THen you have people that you so try to help and wonder if you ever reach them, and lose sleep at night wondering if they will make it thru another day. What is a person to do............. step back. A good lady,,(joy2bfree my voice of reason) ,,,,,,, told me yesterday in chat to realize we can't change the world, not matter how much we try we can only do so much and after that we have to accept that we are limited in what we can do to help others, not matter how much we try. Well I stepped back tonight.. and me and the hubby went out for a night out. We started off playing pool and ended up playing with another couple whom we didnt know at all. It was fun, and once I got to talking to my new girlfriend on the dance floor, we found out we went to school with some of the same people and laughed our hind ends off at who was who and who turned out to be what......... We were laughing so hard, you would have thought we knew each other forever. Small world, thou.we knew some of the same people and places and exchange recipes ,, it was fun to interact with another "grown up" instead of kids, and it was good to talk to someone face to face,,,,,,, a real life person. As much as I love my friends here, it is still good to get out and meet real life people and interact with others. I highly recommend it , as I had a blast tonite with strangers who turned out to be not that really so much strangers, the lady and I went to the same school, knew the same people and caught up on gossip of certain ones....... we even had the fun of two girls dancing together while the guys played pool.
I just think it is worth it to get to know strangers , even thou maybe uncomfortable at first,,,,,, it helps you to connect to others, and realize how much we are all alike, we want the same things. We talked about turkeys,recipes, kids, husbands, and how fun it was to get out once a week and let loose.
So all you who are stuck at home, don't have anyone to do anyting with,,,,,,,,,, go out and do it anyway........ strike up a conversation with someone, who you feel it is not easy . It really isnt that hard once you get started and I can tell you after tonight I have made a new good girlfriend that will always dance with me when no one eles will get out on the floor. You never know if you will connect with another person, but it is worht finding out. You really have nothing to lose. This is just my experience for tonight and it was a good night out................ I really needed a night to get out of the house ............ maybe I will go out again tomorrow...............Lol. who knows what kind of people I will meet tomorrow............ Dede
