Marcy's Life Lessons: Some times We've GOT to give em a chance.

Maria and I were browsing through some of the pics I have stashed away ...

(On HER computer)

Sorry honey...and we both laughed as we came across this one... She loved it so much that she is seriously thinking of having some printed up...

(Frankly... I wouldn't put it past her)

Not only to have them printed.. but to actually use them..

Have you ever come across someone like this?

You know.... a person who for some inexplicable reason you almost instantaneously

take a dislike to..or perhaps get a immediate light bulb like message that you have NOTHING in common.

I know it's happened to me many times...

Wouldn't this card come in handy???

I have to tell you as far as first impressions go...I too have fallen victim to the "I've got you pegged" attitude.

Often I am right.. but sometimes..

Well sometimes I am bitch slapped into submission by my own narrow mindedness..

( Man I hate that...)

The outside doesn't always read the same as the inside....

I have known people who upon meeting them gave off the most unapproachable demeanor..

In some cases it was a

I have it all

I know it all

I am it all

essence..

Clothes, Cars, Job titles, or in some cases just an unspoken aura of "Above it all"

Only for me to find out that the person who seemed to have it all was in actuality ... very insecure and or shy..masking it with aloofness.

Other times I have been spot on...

What I saw .. is what I got..

Maya Angelou once said : "If someone tells you who they are... believe them."

How true !

So often in conversation people will say so much about who they are.. and we just don't listen.

Example... If someone says..

" Sometimes I am just awful.....I'm not a very good friend" They probably aren't

" For the life of me.....I can't keep a secret " They probably can't

"If I don't like someone.....I can be so mean" They probably are.

To be polite we may brush these kinds of comments off ..Not realizing that we have been given keen insight into someones personality.

They can not be more clear about who they are...

I am often fond of saying "What We DON'T say.. speaks volumes"

In this case..

for people like me...

who seem to have a lot to say...

NOT SAYING it says so much.

Emerson said it so much more eloquently..

" Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying."

Anyway... I guess what I am saying is... sometimes the message is loud and clear..

We almost hear the warning ..

"Danger Danger Will Robinson! "

(That is for you folks who were around in the 60's and 70's or those of you fond of old time Lost in Space episodes)

but sometimes We need to give folks a chance..

The layers are thick.. and the waters run deep..

You are basically saying....

Time will be invested in finding out who you are...

Do we see things the same way?

If not can we still get along?

What am I here to teach you?

What do you have to teach me?

You will either find that indeed there IS something there...

or

Nice to meet you ...but you and I are on different paths. Fair thee well.

and that's OK too.

Time to have those courtesy cards printed up !!!

Oh..... by the by.. if you know me personally...Cause if I know you.. and hang with you...

You already KNOW... I love ya more than my luggage

Have a great day !!!!!!

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