If you’re pushing your own boundaries, and if you care what others think of you, you’re bound to experience humiliation at some point in your life.
Jonathan Harnum, Practice Like This
Absofuckinglutely! Listen . . . no one is saying you should go through life totally indifferent to the opinions of others, but for fuck’s sake . . be yourself. When you’re being who you are, there is no opinion more valid than the one you’re toting around. And if the real you is not acceptable to someone else? Fuck ’em.
Do you or go home.
B (the first)
Absofuckinglutely! No point in being anyone else BUT you!
Q (the original)
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Q (the original),
It’s truth. I saw this thought for the day and thought . . . hey, I gots something to add to it . . . LOL.
Gracias por the azucar.
B
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De nada, amigo!
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Forgot my MWAH!
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MUAH!
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MWAH!
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Do you have my office bugged? Twas having a conversation with myself this morning about this very issue and that’s the same conclusion I came to, but now here you are saying the SAME THING.
Whoaaaaaaaaaa.
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Rest easy, I ain’t bugging no offices . . . anymore, LOL.
I googled “Thought for Today April 2, 2019” and tada! There it be . . .
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Coolio.
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Do you or go home. Terrific mantra Marc. We should all practice it until we believe it. 😀
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It woiks, doesn’t it?
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It does woik
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🙂
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Love the concept. Then I have a day like today when I seem to have a terminal case of the stupids, and I have trouble being my own cheerleader. What anyone else thinks is irrelevant.
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God Eilene,,,you are so far from stupid, though I completely understand.
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Ack! I promised myself I wouldn’t whine, then did it anyway. Do over!!
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It’s okay…just letting you know how it doesn’t apply. Look at what you write? I mean HELLO!!!
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Oh, if you only witnessed my bonehead moves yesterday!
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There you go again.
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Some days you feel as if you are on top of the world, and other days . . . not so much. Great thing is, that is rear view now.
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Yah. New day, new attitude. Thanks for understanding.
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You rock.
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I loved this ringing back, what you think of me is none of my business. A particular goal of mine. I can’t take casual criticism, and it comes from every direction. WHO CARES IS RIGHT. People should have to check their mouths at the door. And by the looks of your comments, this whole matter of thinking we’re less, taking that verbal punch, has gone viral. SHUT THE FUCK UP….please. A nice little essay Mr. Imma. 🙂
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It’s been my experience that people are so much more adept at other people’s business than they are at handling their own.
I’m quite a chill person at this point in my life, excepting for those times when someone decides they’re going to go zero dark stupid on me. That’s when I retrieve my old self for some place putting. 🙂
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Boy, do I agree. You have to suffer for their lack of art. Everyone needs their own. Those who criticize starve for a page, canvas or melody of their own.
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You said it all, sistah.
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I wanted to say…this short essay really was a delight to read. I know your pieces as a rule, are much longer, but toss in one of these now and then. Brevity is an art.
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I do so agree with you, SB. It was a spur of the moment post, with that idea in mind. Glad you dig. 🙂
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I yearn to possess the economy of words gene. When I look back at some of my early essay, oh my…they’re like War and Peace…on and on and on. After reading Stephen King’s On Writing, he alerted me to omitting needless words. It’s gotten better but I still tend to prattle. But back to you…it was a neat coupla paragraphs nicely shaved down, like a good haircut…:)
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I remember reading King’s On Writing as well. And I still remember that suggestion, because it’s MUCH easier said than done. It’s a habit you must stick to.
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Yeah…like taking off all your jewelry except for a watch and pearls. Well, if you were a lady that is…:)
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I dig the analogy just fine. May not relate, but I definitely appreciate.
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I was tired when I wrote that. sigh
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Your writing and your wit is peach, tired or not.
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Peach…I never used peach that way. I’m stealing it…:)
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Steal away. And to paraphrase Vito, some day. . and that day may never come, I will call upon you to lend me a word.
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Like when Sonny got it at the toll booth. Did you know, they shot that in one take. Too many squibs, too little time. I’ll always remember the look on the undertaker’s face when he pulls up the sheet and Vito says, I don’t want his mother to see him like this. sigh
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I did not know that, Ms Chief of Staff.
I remember that look! I wonder what they showed him to elicit that very look? Maybe a rough draft of Godfather 3 . . .
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Coppola unbeknownst to the masses, had money issues, so all those squibs cost a pretty penny he deciding he couldn’t duplicate, hence, Sonny dies in one take.
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He could be forgiven in that instance for pinching pennies. But Godfather 3 . . he ain’t getting off the hook. Even for old time’s sake.
Sorry Sal…
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I agree. Was his Ishtar. sigh
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PS No one really expected the film to be such a slam dunk, eternal classic.
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And the cast, my God(father)! . . . they were a veritable Hall of Fame class. And they were just getting started!
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Couldn’t haven’t said (or felt) it better. N.i.c.e. 🤩
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Muchas gracias Monika!
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😀
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