Simple Emotions

Quick question. Why is it that some people feel like they have to please everyone, no matter how it affects them? I’ll admit, I am like this to an extent. I do like to make others around me and that I care about happy but not if it will cost me my own happiness. I’m not willing to trade emotions like that. Your sadness for my happiness is not a fair or equal trade, that’s like trading Lebron for a kid you just picked up from the developmental league on a 2 day contract.

I don’t like people to be upset with me but I can deal with it. Now if someone feels like I somehow disappointed them I can’t just brush that off. I feel like disappointment is worse than upset. being upset about a situation can go away but disappointment seems to last forever. I still remember my dad saying how he was disappointed in me when I was 8. It stung then and it still stings now. I never wanted to feel that again and from then on I strived to never disappoint him again. Now anger (like love, shouts to Ike and Tina Turner) is a simple secondary emotion so sometimes that anger may not be from me but only directed towards me so that’s not an issue for me. Get mad, I could care less!

I have been mad or disappointed in people and I’m sure I will again but I never let that change how I truly feel about them. At least I try not to. I realize that most of the time I’m upset with something the they did or did not do and not with them overall. Now of course, you only get so many chances with me before I write you off. Around 2. I can’t be around foolishness for too long. “A smart man surrounds himself and associates with smarter people” – Will Smith. “Only fools talk to fools because they speak the same language” – Grandma Sincere.
Think on it
Sincere