Cell Phones-Good and Bad

The cell phone is probably one of the most convenient inventions ever created while being one of the most annoying and invasive at the same time. You use a cell for good when you call up friends or loved ones who can not be with you physically to let them know you are thinking about and loving them. On the flip side you use a cell for evil when you “check up on people,” or call to argue with them about something.

We have enough stress in the world without technology giving us no personal escape. I think it is completely healthy and necessary to be able to go somewhere alone and think about the way you live. Doing such a thing is not to cut those that care deeply about you out of your life. On the contrary being introspective can allow you to open up more and be closer to one another. When a person can understand how they are feeling and why they act the way they do, it will be much easier to express this to a partner, friend, or lover.

Picture this scenario. You are sitting alone at your favorite hiding spot. Everything is nice and relaxing. Enter cell phone. It rings loudly breaking the silence. All of a sudden you realize you have this device that tracks you. The only force powerful enough to stop an incoming call or text is crappy service. You have been conditioned to want to answer that call. If you decide not to answer you hear that nagging voice mail beep. The moment is completely ruined as you will now wonder who that was and what they wanted.

I admit to being a slave to my cell. My phone is always on and I check it a few hundred times a day. I use it as my watch and sometimes as a form of entertainment. With this being said, I can go out on walks without the thing glued to my hip. And I am certainly not going to let a cell take over people time. My advice is to treat a cell phone like anything else in life… moderately. Understand that answering a call is not the be-all-end-all situation some people make it. Cell Phones should be a helping tool, not a stress inducer.

In other Barbie news… it’s true “things happen when you least expect them to.” Barbie wants to develop this into a bigger segment, but for now I’m going to take it slow and see where the wind blows so to speak. I will say that I am in a great mood and a hidden and sleeping part of me is awakening, much like Sleeping Beauty. My gut says this is the start of something unexplainably amazing.


“Either you define the moment… or the moment defines you.” -Tin Cup

Persistence

Pondering
Ever so silently
Real thoughts
Stir
Inside
Secrets
Trembling
Essence
Never
Ceasing to
Exsist

There is a motivational poster making its way through the mail. It is based on Persistence. And what an ability that is. No matter what goes on in life persistence gives the courage to continue on.

For this Barbie... it will be the driving force of a new work-out.

The white-board is clean and waiting for some marks to be made.


"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fall Introspection

You know that feeling that you get when you look around a room and everything seems completely in place except a big wad of trash in the can. And no matter what you do to ignore it there is an urge to rid yourself of the ugliness and restore order and balance. Some call this ‘Spring Cleaning.’ Out with the old in with the new mentality. I view this scenario as a metaphor for dealing with relationships. People change. And this change can either bring you closer to a person, or cause a nuclear explosion that decimates all emotions and leaves you a lifeless body with no soul. (Well life does go on, but not a satisfying existence.)

If you refer to my first post in 2008 I predicted some pretty life-changing events this year. And true to Sassy form I have lived up to the expectations. I have had some quality time to find myself and guide my changes in a positive way. More importantly I have embraced the concept of taking out the garbage and ridding myself of unnecessary downers and distractions.

Sometimes I feel a little lost. Sometimes I feel a little timid. For a while I felt that my happiness should come from solving other people’s problems. You can be many things to a person, but you can not be their everything. You can not change them, or mold them, or even tell them what to do.

What you can do is love you. You can feel like you have self-worth and that *YOU* matter. The sooner that you can be at peace with YOU, the sooner you can be a person that people respect and want around.

You can never really get rid of the past. It will always be a part of who you are and something that has shaped you one way or the other. And even though there are things you might wish you had done differently, all is not lost. It is high time to live in the present and here and now.

My advice… take out your own personal trash. Fall is the perfect time to clear the ole’ slate and start over. Think about all the trees who will shed old leaves (old habits) to make room for new leaves (new and better habits).

That is life. Be a tree. Be prepared to accept the change and to welcome it with an open heart. Some of the best things in life come when you just let go.



“When making the fire people like to join you, when cleaning the ashes you are often alone”
African Proverb