My Grade 10 english teacher used to say, “Life is not fair, whoever told you life was fair, was lying to you.” Unfortunately it is true. I said it all the time, especially to my teens. I hope it doesn’t still auto play in their heads now.
I few years back, I worked with a lovely lady, a few years my senior. She always had stories, she always made me laugh. She listenned, not a lot of people truely listen. I even catch myself sometimes, I listen, but what someone was really trying to say doesn’t come to me till later. I replay convo’s in my head all the time and for the record if people would just ask for cookies, we wouldn’t have a day delay.
If you want something you should just ask. Be specific, people do not read minds. You can’t just stare at a cookie jar and expect people to know that you want one. Maybe if you are a dog. If the cookie jar has a different selection of cookies, you need to say which kind you prefer. Sounds pretty simple right?
I would never ask for help. Feircly independent, mostly stubborn! When I am talking to friends through a problem, small or otherwise, you come to the point of what can you do? When that solution requires someone else, we tend to ignore it. They might say no, and for those of us with the glass half full, they might say yes. How are you going to know if you don’t ask? Throw the “what ifs” aside and ask for the damn cookies!
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