saturday nights are alright

~ father-in-law plays in a band and they were playing at my favorite local bar, so we all went over for a few hours to listen. while there, we played darts and i had such a good time! kid was realllllly hit and miss on her throws, so we advised her to NOT throw when people were nearby. =D

~ i am finding that people who spend much of their time looking in the past to dredge up grist for their miseries of today are irritants to my well-being if i'm around them too long. i truly believe that we all can find "causes" for our perceived problems if we scratch around in our past — but the reality is that you can't change what happened, you can just change the you of the now. the shit we cling to does ZERO for us except hold us back; releasing it does the total opposite of ZERO for us and allows us to keep moving up that mountain. 

for me, the WHY behind why i stress eat, WHY i'm prickly and difficult to get close to, WHY i'm sometimes distrustful of kindness toward me, WHY i'm flighty AF, etc and so on, don't really matter beyond having a foundation for understanding. after getting that, i don't need to regurgitate it over and over...i don't need to keep using those things as excuses. 

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