Lost art.

I have been thinking alot lately about the lost art of Manners. When did it become acceptable to forget the please.. the thank you.. the excuse me.. the pardon me. When did parents stop teaching their children these fundamental social skills?

Yes, kids forget these little words but it is our job to make sure to remind them and correct them when they don't use these words.

With these forgotten words we continue to add to the current generation of thankless people, the people who have a HUGE sense of entitlement with out deserving an ounce of what they have or what they will get.

Contemplation

The age old question must be asked... why does life have to be so difficult? I love my life, but at times I feel like a am stretched and pulled too many ways... I feel like I have to fix everyone and everything, like i have to make everyone happy even if that means sacrificing a piece of myself. In that mix of trying to fix everything and everyone else I forget to fix myself.

I have been thinking alot about the last year of my life.. family fractured...old friends lost... new friends added. There are times when I wish I could rewind a year ago to a time when I was blissfully unaware of everything and everyone was happy and thing just ticked along.

Then I realize that the past is the past, you cannot take back things already said, things change that we cannot control. If it could all be fixed then I would happily fix it... but I cannot.

So I guess I need to work on putting the pieces of myself back together. Then maybe I won't miss those broken things so much.