That was one wild ride...

Good morning, everyone!!!

Whew...

​I am still alive to write this blog. Not sure how, but I am. It's only taken a few days of recovery to get this blog up :)

​Every year these festivals get bigger and bigger. The pictures don't even do justice to the crowds we experienced this year. I've never seen anything like it. Our cooler shelves were almost completely empty (and we prepare for this for a month prior). Let's just say at one of the calls I received from the store where I needed to go up there, I had to have police direct traffic and people to get me out of my parking space.

​Deliveries are starting to come in this week to replenish our shelves. The plumber had to install a new toilet in our bathroom. And the store is finally beginning to get put back together LOL.

​I still haven't caught up on my sleep. But that's my own fault. I've been helping the daughter get some major things done around her place the last few days.

​Life is crazy sometimes and sometimes we just need to go with the insanity and make life work :)

​This time of year and this festival time always reminds me that anything in life can happen in the blink of an eye. Just breathing and finding the courage to keep going is what it is all about.

​I sign on to my newsfeed each morning and some days things are fine. Other days I just shut it off or unfollow feeds. I'm so tired of seeing all the disrespect flying around on the worldwide web. They say people have become braver because they don't have to see faces anymore when giving an opinion. I can see how this is true. Sure, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but the attacks on opinions different than your own is truly disheartening. People have just become overly argumentative anymore, and I just hate seeing that.

​When you debate face to face and give each other a chance to share their opinions, things in life change. Because when you have to really listen versus "Oh I don't like that so I won't read it" you find a chance to learn and grow. But if you never give yourself the opportunity to not only share but to really listen to others and yourself, you stay in one place.

​Arguing continuously puts out so much negativity into the world. Sure, it can be sugar-coated as 'your' opinion, but one thing about opinions, they really do no good without backing them with actions, not actions in the forms of facebook or twitter posts, but true actions such as day to day living.

​I'm surrounded by people all the time. This weekend I was surrounded by people from all over. I can honestly say we have some REAL issues in this world today and those issues go much deeper than who is President or what someone is saying on facebook.

​We're losing entire generations to drugs. You say, oh come on, that's not true. When you have elderly people asking you where the bathroom is only for them to come out looking as messed up as the teenager everyone knows is doing drugs, then yes, there is a major problem. We've had to have a plumber work on our toilet at our store a few different times because public restrooms are a favorite place for people to grab their high.

​It is a shame when you see someone you don't recognize because when you knew them last they looked completely different before the drugs.

​We have a problem. A major problem. How can we ask people to respect things or people around them when they don't respect themselves. They can't find self-worth within them.

​People look to movies stars, athletes, and the like for role models. Then you hear on the news this star or that athlete is being busted for drugs or the like. Maybe, just maybe, we need to look to ourselves for our roles models instead of the fantasy world these other forms of life give us.

​Find our own dreams to live out. Find our true convictions within ourselves versus all the whining over who hurt my feelings today.

​Sadly, in the 'real' world feelings will be hurt. It has been a fact of life for centuries and will be a fact of life long after we are gone. What happened to learning coping mechanisms instead of justifying bad behavior? It saddens me to see so many even my own age acting like children. They could put that energy into real issues, child abuse, domestic violence, the war on drugs, education of children, and maybe just maybe teach our future generations how to become productive adults.

​If we as adults keep acting no better than a child who needs a time out, how can we effectively teach our children to grow up to become well adjusted adults? Just a thought...

​Everyone have a lovely day!!!

Blessings to all!!!





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