Sometimes taking off in the middle of a work day to visit the garden center to buy a few pretty blooms is necessary.
85 degrees is way too hot for a day in early May - especially when I plan to do work outside. Especially when a well meaning friend reminds you to wear sunscreen, and you don’t. Thinking you know better - you head out to get the planting done and end up with a sunburn and a friend who knew better.
Having one or two really close friends who know and understand you, completely 100% through and through, is better than having a hundred friends who don’t.
Sometimes the right thing to do is just that. The self-sacrifice felt in the immediate moment may not feel so hot… it takes time, sometimes years, to be able to look back and say, with 100% confidence.. “Yep - that was the right thing to do”. You can learn to live with denying yourself a certain satisfaction.. but I think it would be hard to learn to live with yourself for not doing the right thing at the exact time your gut tells you that it’s right…because you would be forever a part of an internal battle to justify yourself and your actions, even if only to your own conscience.
I’ll take bittersweet over bitter any day of the week.
I’m not dying of skin cancer - and for that I am grateful.
How was your Thursday?
Sounds like one heck of a week! Glad to hear you got...
9:03 pm on May 10th, 2007
You’re a wise lady
9:19 pm on May 10th, 2007
If I had worn sunscreen. . that would have made me wiser
1:35 am on May 11th, 2007
What I like to do on such Garden-center-flower-buying-days is to go to the botanical garden next to my institute, take a good book along with some tea and just enjoy the passing time. (http://pages.unibas.ch/botgarten/index.html if you need some inspiration)…
6:26 am on May 11th, 2007
Some pretty heavy thoughts, each succinctly presented.
Man, I never have a Thursday as productive as yours!
9:47 am on May 11th, 2007
There’s nothing so great as being pleased at the end of the day! Congratulations!
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12:42 pm on May 11th, 2007
A truly wise person would not tag someone with a meme, they would just know that they were gonna get tagged back!
12:46 pm on May 11th, 2007
[...] if I have missed off any of the other participants, and I tag Lisa Sabin-Wilson (Revenge!) and Carolyn Manning [...]
2:06 pm on May 11th, 2007
Stevie - - haha! touché!
5:53 am on May 12th, 2007
Hi Lisa,
My first visit to your site and I must applaud you on your theme. It’s incredibly original for me.
I arrived here after Stevie took part in my first ever blog meme, and I’m glad he did.
Off I go to subscribe to your RSS feed.
Ciao from Scotland.
12:02 pm on May 12th, 2007
Hi David - thanks for dropping by and for your kind words! I’ll be doing your meme sometime this week