Day 2,642 —Hard to be Me (Hard to be You)— with a PICTURE of a POSSUM

Thinking about this during my run today not paying attention to where my feet take me. Watch out there is an elderly lady on my right! Must exit the sidewalk! Be careful there is a lady with two dogs without leashes in front of me!

The older I get the less I get to be me. People show open animosity towards my personality. I knew it was always there, but I naively assumed because this was my personality that surely people cannot hold that against me, but they do, and I don’t think they know they are doing it.  

I always remind myself that life is hard for everyone. No one really has it, “easy,” but what I find is people on both sides of every argument are more and more open to showing open animosity towards the other side. When you really believe you are in the “right,” there is no stopping what you might be willing to do to help your cause. 

What is frustrating is that some things are right and wrong. Some things we don’t know for sure, and a lot of things we just don’t have enough information to make any type of valid conclusion, but we have seemed to have lost the ability to see the difference between these things, and instead focus our attention on fighting people and not sloppy thinking and destructive ideas. 

I wish I knew how to navigate these things, but when I try to help others; they often get mad at me for saying anything, and when I don’t say anything, I get mad at me for not standing up for what I believe. 

I am sure most people feel similar.