Thursday, September 20, 2012

Why, Oh, Why, Me?

You know those days when just every single thing goes wrong? I had one of those days- My alarm clock didn't go off, I had forgotten to iron out my shirts so they were all wrinkled for work, there was no more milk for my cereal in the morning, I had bad gas, I couldn't get a handle on any of my duties at work, AND on my way home I missed the light rail and had to wait for the next one (which was only 20 minutes but still...it was annoying.)

We hear it all the time from ourselves or from other people, "WHY ME?!" but the fact that things going awry in life is often an ignored part of life even though we have all experienced it many times. KEY WORDS: we ALL have experienced life gone wrong at some point...we as individuals are not alone in the fact that life just sucks sometimes and its hard. However, we seem to forget that other people have or are going through things too and we come to narcssistically believe that we are the ONLY ones going through a hard time.

Much of the time, we complain not realizing it is the result of our OWN actions. But we would never admit that would we? No, we tend to blame things or people around us for what is going on in our lives. We hear things like, "Its my bosses fault I didn't get this done, he didn't tell me what to do!" or "Its his fault that we are fighting- he's just such an idiot," or "It's her fault that we went too fast in the workout not mine," or "Its hear fault that I am struggling with eating- she only eats salads for dinner,"

If we want to change our circumstance it has to come from within- no one else is to blame. WE have a choice....Always... to figure out information we don't know, not to follow someone's lead if it is wrong, and fix something if it is not right. You are not the only one struggling with something, believe me. Also, other people and things are not to blame- its your life so you have to take charge and not expect anyone else to come and make it better for you. Ignorance to this fact will contribute to the formation of habitual self pity and this will only drag us down in life.

Let's stop pointing fingers and get through it.