Let me be…
“If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you. “
This isn’t something I have written, but something I found randomly, here. But it surely is something I wholeheartedly subscribe to.
Let me follow the music I hear, just let me follow my drum…
Saturday, 3 November 2007 at 5:38 pm
I agree, gypsygirl!! I just figured out how to put your homepage in my blogroll! It was going to one post and did not show up as to how to navigate to other posts. So glad to figure that out…when I clicked on your (forgot what it’s called) pic of the girl on the stoop that we all like, it took me to your home page. Now I can keep up with you!
I love this that you have here…so much fussing over things about others that we cannot change and it makes matters worse. I know my beliefs cannot be shaken but I will listen and learn and change if there’s reason, but I don’t like for someone to force their way “all up in my biz”! ;-))
I am so tickled to be able to see your posts!!
God Bless and Keep You.
Sunday, 4 November 2007 at 1:30 am
Hey, Odale! Its great to hear from ya! I’ve just been lying too low on the writing front.. Thank you for taking so much trouble just to put me there on your blogroll list! I do think you are great at keeping up! hehe.. Noone is as forthcoming with their views as you!
Somehow I feel, we are on the same wavelength, and hearing from you always puts a smile on my face.
Coming to this page, its something close to my heart. Its not that I am a stubborn rebel, just that there is a line I draw, and am very clear which way I want to do anything. Its never easy to stick to what you believe in, especially when you stumble, because that allows people room for more criticism. But I just cant follow others when my beliefs are certainly contrasting. However, when wrong, although I admit its not easy for me, but I do try and correct myself. This is only when I believe I have committed a mistake, never otherwise. Trouble arises when my duty and my beliefs differ, and I have to choose only one. It takes me quite a while to resolve the conflict in my mind!
Sunday, 4 November 2007 at 2:04 pm
I subscribe too! Where do I sign?
Monday, 5 November 2007 at 9:13 am
hehe.. just sign it in your heart!
Tuesday, 6 November 2007 at 7:04 am
You are always so uplifting , gypsygirl! When you write from the “depths of your soul”, you have a lot to say and relate to the humanness in all of us. Your writing is fascinating and thought provoking,
That’s what I meant in the comment just made in “Starting Afresh” about getting bogged down by thinking too much. Life does not have to be a maze of “should I”, “shouldn’t I”? Isn’t it pretty much common sense to treat other with common decency? If I don’t want to be infringed upon, then I shouldn’t infringe on others. I do not want to be opinionated in my blog, but I feel compelled to stand and be counted (by Jesus) at the same time. It’s really not my opinion, although I know that’s how the world sees it, but I read a lot and absolutely love my study Bible…actually, there are a lot of story ideas and prompts in the Bible. If it could be done, someone did it! That’s really where I want to put my focus if I can get time…
Remember the stories about how I used to run away as a child? Things like that are fun.
You have touched on a very imbalanced topic in being obligated by duty and doing things that go against the grain. There are a lot of shady characters but that which I would not have thought so much about not long ago, I now see how much it impacts others. For instance, we have a TV commercial that starts out, “I have genital herpes.” (Sorry if that’s vulgar, but it’s on national TV) and I’m thinking, “No way” and “How proud is your family?” but I would not do such a commercial b/c of the underlying message of multiple sex partners being okay. If that’s what someone wants to do, that’s their biz but I think in terms of kids watching (used to teach at the middel school ;-).
You have given me encouragement in a better focus…Thanks, gypsygirl!! I need you to get out here with me!
Tuesday, 6 November 2007 at 12:25 pm
Thank you Odale! I believe you give me too much credit sometimes! Not that it doesn’t make me smile!
I understand the getting bogged down part. I tend to do a lot of that myself. But then sometimes, I get infuriated about letting things get to me and I go out and just do my job for the day! Keep myself busy ! It sure drives away the thinking part a while, although I know its only a temporary thing. But sometimes, it gives you perspective in the sense that you realise it was not worth thinking so much about!
I agree about the opinionated bit! I had a tee few yrs back that blatantly said, ” I am not opinionated, I am just always right!” Not a modest thing, but I loved it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with holding an opinion and sticking to it. What I do hate is when people cant stick to what they say!
I would definitely want to read more of the stories that you write..running away was fun!
I agree about how what we say or do can impact so many others! Common decency, is most underrated these days. And ofcourse, I see mere 5 yr olds getting affected by everything around and acting like teenagers! Not a great idea to give up on childhood though! I feel sad for those who can’t live their childhood fully. I’ve had a great childhood, lots of fun times. I hope some day my kids can get the same! LOL.. when I have them!
Yea, I’ll surely get out and back to writing soon!
Tuesday, 6 November 2007 at 4:38 pm
One of my sister’s husband calls her the “Smartest Person On the Planet” ( and honest she is smart, she’s a Senoir Scientist at an elite lab…
so I got her a t-shirt that has S.P.O.P. on it and she had a blast with that!
You are a sweetheart, gypsygirl, and you should be told so! I remember the first comment you left and how good you made me feel. I mean, you let me know you read and understood what the dickens I was saying! LOL It wasn’t, as you say, lip service and you appreciate the effort it takes to put one paragraph after another…and some days are better than others!
People not sticking to their convictions is what has put so many negative connotations to politicains, preachers and teachers. At this point, I am not even sure I would send my child to public school if there was any way around it. It’s true with anyone, though. Someone I know has a terrible habit of talking about other people’s kids in front of his son who is a *@!$*!! coming and going, but the gossip makes him worse. I do not like being around them but I finally told the dad one day that he really should clean up his own yard before worrying about others…Yea, I know I messed the saying up but I was upset and got tongue-tied! ;-))
Oh, gypsyfirl, when I taught at the middle school, some of those poor kids were so burdened with adult matters…I used to think, “Shoot, I don’t even want to deal with the nonsense, why are you?” I used to think the gossip was a result of being in a small county but as I pay attention to the media and “adults”, I see it’s the world we live in…can you imagine being Britney Spears or Heather Mills? Can’t even get a break in their divorces! Let them be…
Wednesday, 7 November 2007 at 10:43 am
wow.. S.P.O.P sounds cool! B-) I wonder if I could get with the same, albeit the “S” here for sweet! ;-)) hahah… gotchya! I still think you give me too much credit on the sweet part! Do I really sound too diabetic ?
I don’t believe in false plumping up of egos, but when I like something, I can’t hold back! 
Thanks for telling me that my comment touched you!
I agree, people tend to say and promise too much and do too little! Kinda disappointing really! They would be so much better if they wouldnt say too much and atleast do the little they say! Integrity is again getting more questionable these days! hahah.. I sound like an old dame! ;-))
I was laughing away at your comment to that guy who spoke too much! Wow! I sometimes feel like telling people off like that, but I cant! I feel horribly at a loss of words in those instances, coz I get thoroughly shocked by their outageous behaviour! Something like what Meg Ryan’s character feels in You’ve got mail… when she wishes she could just for once learn to retort back at the right moment instead of mulling over it later! Totally me!
I am quite in awe of teachers, its great to find you’ve been one too. And I had so many great ones in school, I had a hard time keeping my favourites down! :)) But in college, things were totally different. These people didnt have the slightest idea what it means to be a “teacher” ! So much more than a verbal baggage you dole out, sadly they could get by with just that and some good sadistic, you will flunk definitely comments! Horribly wrong! Totally spoils the sacred teacher-student relationship!
I agree, kids are getting into adulthood too fast! After Britney Spears, they are now after Miley Cyrus it seems! I sometimes wish their parents hadn’t let them get into the limelight at a young age though! Too much too soon, and I agree, who would want to be in their shoes?! I am soon going to turn 25, and I am happy I have been an anonymous child and teenager … It keeps you grounded! But then, who would want to be me either? ;-))
Saturday, 17 November 2007 at 6:03 pm
I get flustered and then wonder if I said too much or if I should have said anything at all…the way I am seeing it now-a-days, though, is that people will step all over you if you don’t set it right from the get-go. I made the mistake of thinking others were better or smarter plenty of times, but I see now how people veer from the truth to satisfy thier motives.
The son of the dad was talking one day about how funny it was the one of his peers had wrecked his truck. Someone (besides me, thankfully) spoke up and asked if he’d told his dad that he gets pulled over by the cops every week end (not that his dad cares)! Even with the celebrities being in so much murk, I can still see fault in myself just as easily.
btw, no, you are not “sickeningly sweet”! That would come off as phony and I don’t see that at all! What’s wrong with being kind until you are given reason to be otherwise? Like the guy who kept stalking you. Why should you put up with that–so you don’t hurt his feelings? There’s a guy I see every once in a while in a Christain directed blog and he goes there to antagonize. Why? If his beliefs are so different, why does he need to start an argument or make rude “You’re so stupid” comments? I resisted leaving a comment the last time I saw him!
Oh, gypsygirl, when I was in college, I had only two out of numerous professors who were actual teachers. The oddest thing has always been that the one I had for “Communications” was the worst of them all! And she was teaching how to communicate??? I took a loss in getting out of the public schools, but not a lot of teaching goes on anymore…Teachers are even trying to teach table manners in the lunchroom…
You know you can get my e-mail address from your comments in the dashboard, right? I never am sure about protocol but it’s perfectly fine if you ever want to send an e-mail!!
Wednesday, 28 November 2007 at 5:29 pm
I get tongue-tied all the time! I know this through some bad experience that if you let people sit on your head they most definitely will.. We sometimes tend to undermine ourselves a bit too much and that can work out really nastily sometimes.. Not to say that there aint good people out in the world, just that, it can backfire more often than not!
Hah.. the son again! Its amazing to see people most full of crap refusing to admit it!
Thanx.. I hope not!
about the sickening part…LOL
haha..what an irony about your professors! Communications, eh? LOL..
thanx for telling me its ok to email, I’ll do that !