Comparison is like a ninja and will have stolen your joy and so much more before you can even realize it if one isn't careful. Why do we even compare our path with others anyway? All it does is cause one to get so caught up in all one is not and before long you are blinded to see all that you are. It makes you feel like you aren't good enough, not where you should be in life, you start to feel overlooked, unimportant and oh look now we have got boxed in with all of these lies and the truth of who you are is but a very dim light that seems to be fading quickly.
It's been so long and I've had so many, and I do mean many, ideas and thoughts of what I wanted to write that I'm not even sure if that was all I was going to write of the previous paragraph and if I was going to add more I have no idea what it could have been. With that being said (typed?) I'll go ahead and leave that, who knows I may come back to it before I finish this post up. I have no idea actually where to go from here so I guess just a typing we shall go and see where this path leads. This post sure is taking forever to write, I may have something decent by the end of September at this rate!
However, back to the comparison thought I originally started with (yeah I think I finally sort of remembered where I was going with the thought.) I find it somewhat sad that I (can't fairly say we since don't know if whoever reads this fits into this or not) but I sometimes get so busy comparing myself to others that I can forget we all have a lot in common if you think about it. Sometimes one can eadily get stuck on the comparison train, that thing will make you sick cause it just goes in circles and gets you no where. Seriously though if you listen you can constantly hear how people consciously or not compare themselves to others. When to some degree and at some point we are all fighting the same battle(s) or at least to get some of the same goals. Have you ever listened, really listened not just to reply but to hear the tiredness or excitement in a persons voice. I guess the point I wanted to make is not to spend so much time focused on the outside and filling in the blanks of a persons life when 1) you can take the time and listen to get the right answers to those fill in the blanks 2) we generally all have a lot more in common than we either want to admit or dare to see and 3) there's a purpose for the very road you are taking might not be the one you think you want or even deserve and you may be right on both accounts but the road of the person you compare yourself to well there may have been parts that person had to go where no road was and pave it maybe it was dirt or gravel for a long time but you are just seeing the freshly paved and painted road. Who knows that might be the very person that helps you figure out the easier way to get passed a big pot hole in your own road.
A few last random thoughts and I think I can call this post finished. Have you ever had to open an old file and pull out a piece of advice someone gave you or maybe from something you read? I have to do that sometimes but there are times the advice seemingly pops in my mind or I'll see something that off the wall makes me think of that bit of advice not even really realizing I needed it or that it could help with something I may be dealing with. That has happened a couple of times recently. And once again one time me randomly (as in getting out of my car just looking down at the driveway random) I found a feather (which is weird at how it makes me smile and reminds me of a couple of things I guess) and then a few things that people have told me. I know you think I'm not listening, okay sometimes I really may not be, but I for the most part am listening and taking as well as appreciating the help or advice. Funny random thought sometimes I get stuck on listening to a particular song for days, listening to other songs too but always going back to that one and hitting repeat A LOT! I've done that for the past couple of weeks on one song and wouldn't you know the singer still gets the lyrics wrong! Kidding but one would think if I listen to a song as much as I have this one I'd more than easily have the correct lyrics memorized. Repeating songs and the same topics on here are things I do to often perhaps. I don't know songs can be good with my version of the lyrics too, at least fun. Lucky you, assuming you've read this far, will get spared reading about this latest series I'm reading. To much to write to really get into, hopefully I do get around to it though. Until then don't let others in the driver seat of your life and be careful who you let sit in the passengers seat but don't ignore the people in the backseat
or at the stops I'm a firm believer in that there's a purpose for those we meet and are lucky enough to get to ride with on this ride called life.
