Sunday, December 23, 2012

Agree to disagree...


Everyone has an opinion and even though I am considered very opinionated… over the last year or so I have learned one thing, as my title says is that is sometimes that all there is to do is, ‘agree to disagree’. Keeping the peace is hard in life, at work, within the family and so the only way to allow for not having one brain with one mindset within family and friends circles I have come to the conclusion that it is best to agree to disagree and leave it at that. Most conflicts are not ones that will put your own lives over a fiscal cliff, although, don’t we all wish we could resolve that issue without their input, lickety split, 1 2 3, or cause a dent in the way we believe the gun issue should be handled? The split in how Americans think it should be handled is nearly as whacko as the houses of government with OUR FISCAL CLIFF! These splits in ways of thinking are, to say the least, the most frustrating with things way too important for us to accept as in my title as the only way to handle it, since both of those have to do with life and death in their own perspectives in a financially or physical way and are most important and stalemates are NOT acceptable! Wishy washy is not how our government employees are supposed to do their jobs that we hired them for and so eventually we can fire them! In any other situation if people do not perform in respect to their jobs they were hired to do they would be served their walking papers immediately…! Moving on… Friends allow others to voice opinions and listen perhaps without commentary. Today an old friend posted something that I did not agree about and sadly it was something I felt strongly about and she deleted what I wrote both times. PS it was about the bullet proof backpacks, I was against and she being a cop was for. I still feel that the children have to have front and back and head and arm and leg protection too for it to conceivably work and they usually have to put their backpacks in cloakrooms or lockers anyway… the whole concept to me was detestable, but I did not write all of that on her post. All I wrote that I thought it was horrid or some such thing. She called me and we talked and she wanted to know if she could help me not have her post posts where I could see them? I said that they didn’t bother me and no one can post on my timeline anyway that the only way I see what others post is when it comes on that little pull down thingy. And I click on it. We talked some more and I think all is well when I said what my title said. No rage, just happy holidays and goodbye. Update: a few months ago I mentioned an old friend who was being cared for by hospice, well she is still with us and appears to be doing okay! At least from her FB posts it seems that way with a lot of family coming to visit; a Christmas miracle? That would be nice to think so. On that note of a somewhat higher note, allow me to be the first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!

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