June 20, 2007
Today was a stressful day for me. Forget world peace…. it’s enough of a challenge right now to have a peaceful home. I live with two other people, and we started the day at each other’s throats and we’re still recovering now, in the evening. At least things calmed down by the afternoon, but we’re all exhausted from it.
Everything’s fine now, of course, but it reminded me once again of how important it is to develop peaceful habits as part of your everyday life. It is so easy in the heat of the moment to say hurtful things, which only escalates what usually started out as a minor disagreement. I am willing to admit that I played a part in doing just that this morning, letting my fears overrun my reason. Instead of calming the situation down, as I would have liked to have been able to do, I made it worse.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong,
which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
(Alexander Pope, English poet, 1688-1744)
1 comment:
Hi!
True, maintaining peace at the homefront is sometimes more stressful. It is uncanny that the same people that we profess to love above all, can really get on our nerves :)
Anyway, keep blogging!
btw, thanks for visiting my site!
deb
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