Gratitude & Thanksgiving
Happy Thanskgiving to those of you celebrating this official holiday. I hope your celebration was memorable.
Mine was memorable for a couple of reasons. My 19 year-old step son, Jeremy was able to trek down from campus at San Francisco State University to the beach accompanied by his girlfriend, Perrine. We enjoyed a wonderful dinner and some down time in the hot tub.
Justin also enjoyed seeing his brother and engaged him in several wrestling and light-sabre matches. I'm not sure who won these but I did hear yelps of momentary pain from either side.
The other memorable aspect of Thanksgiving 2005 was having one member of my family treat me in a less-than-affectionate fashion. For whatever reason, this person made it apparent that I reminded this person of something akin to a root canal without anesthesia.
I don't honestly know why this occured.
It was frustrating, annoying, and liberating.
I say liberating because it forced me to make a decision as to how I would respond. I'll admit to giving it back a few times when asking why the attitude was so pervasive.
Eventually,I realized that it really was meaningless and amongst the world's most important issues, this certainly wasn't one of them.
I'm grateful for Jeremy's presence in our home. I'm grateful for the feast we enjoyed. I'm also grateful for the ill treatment as it forced me to make a choice and, in the process, realize that this choice is always available to me.
I have to choose to be a crabby person. I have to choose to be rude and insulting.
I can just as easily choose to be true to my real nature and just be Barry. Mild, mannered, respectful.
Make the better choice.
Peace,
Barry @ G3
Mine was memorable for a couple of reasons. My 19 year-old step son, Jeremy was able to trek down from campus at San Francisco State University to the beach accompanied by his girlfriend, Perrine. We enjoyed a wonderful dinner and some down time in the hot tub.
Justin also enjoyed seeing his brother and engaged him in several wrestling and light-sabre matches. I'm not sure who won these but I did hear yelps of momentary pain from either side.
The other memorable aspect of Thanksgiving 2005 was having one member of my family treat me in a less-than-affectionate fashion. For whatever reason, this person made it apparent that I reminded this person of something akin to a root canal without anesthesia.
I don't honestly know why this occured.
It was frustrating, annoying, and liberating.
I say liberating because it forced me to make a decision as to how I would respond. I'll admit to giving it back a few times when asking why the attitude was so pervasive.
Eventually,I realized that it really was meaningless and amongst the world's most important issues, this certainly wasn't one of them.
I'm grateful for Jeremy's presence in our home. I'm grateful for the feast we enjoyed. I'm also grateful for the ill treatment as it forced me to make a choice and, in the process, realize that this choice is always available to me.
I have to choose to be a crabby person. I have to choose to be rude and insulting.
I can just as easily choose to be true to my real nature and just be Barry. Mild, mannered, respectful.
Make the better choice.
Peace,
Barry @ G3
posted by Barry W. Morris @ 6:34 PM
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