Colors of Kindness

Springtime Hues

Susan Spencer

When Action Follows Heart

They say that kindness is one of the most popular traits that a person can have.  Everyone needs kindness in their lives, don't we?  That's why it's so difficult dealing with petty people.  Unhappy people have a hard time seeing others be happy and so they try to make your life miserable.  However we all have had our good days and bad days, don't we?

What I have a hard time understanding is that when a petty person treats you badly not only do they still expect to be friends with you but they ask that you pretend to be friends with them in public.  I'm sorry, but if you are not a genuine friend then I don't believe in pretending something that we are not.  I have never said that I am perfect but at least I own what I do and admit when I do something wrong, however there are people that no matter what they always feel that they are in the right.

I once heard someone on the radio talk about how Jesus owned what he did but that he wouldn't take the blame for something that he didn't do.  Well...  I don't feel that I should be held accountable for something someone else does when I was not the one doing it.  Everyone should be able to speak up for themselves.  Don't take the blame for someone else.  Usually a guy always comes between two gal friends.  And that is when the cattiness and petty behavior comes in.  Of course it can be for other reasons but you know what I mean...   This usually doesn't happen if you pick friends of character.  After all there is such a thing as a girlfriend code... 

Since we know what goes around comes around then I can't imagine that the end result will be positive for the petty person.  Do you?  I truly hope that you can be kind and not petty when push comes to shove.  However don't feel like you have to be a doormat.  If someone doesn't treat you right then you have a right to walk away.  Set your boundaries and hope to forgive them for their bad behavior but you don't have to put up with it.  Just walk away...  How are they ever going to learn if you enable them for their bad behavior?

Dublin Nights

Stringing Lights

Shinta Cho

The Gas We Pass

I was at a friend's birthday dinner one night when one of the guests loudly said "someone farted" and ran out the door.  The rest of us are just looking at each other but then we smelled it...  So you know who the culprit was?  The one that said it and ran out the door...  Do you find that strange in any way?  Why not just go to the bathroom or something?  There are times you come across situations that just are unique...

Tara Gomi

Everyone Poops

I remember coming across this book at a nature store years ago and then again at a white elephant gift exchange...  Did you know that there is a fetish where some people like hearing people go?  I personally think you would have to live with your mind in the gutter to have a fascination for something like this but you will know if a person has this because they will talk about bathroom noises, etc. a lot and point out when other people go...

Most people in other cultures are not obsessed by this as it is something everyone does but for some reason our culture is in the United States.  Like the book says Everyone Poops but from how some people talk about others you would think they personally never did.  Usually the ones that talk about it are the ones that go the most I think.  And they usually go and blame you for it because they love using scapegoats for their pettiness.  The ultimate petty behavior is blaming someone else for something you do.  But petty behavior abounds all around...  How petty do you have to be to do something like this?  Petty, petty, petty...  So petty!

If I Were...

A Butterfly

If I were
a butterfly?
A sugar cube
or a melon?

If I were
a pizza slice
or a chewy
fudgy brownie...

Of a flower
in a field
or a bee buzzing
around a flower...

Or could I be
an allegory
or a metaphor
trying to
make a point
because that is what
writers do?

@JoSH Poetic Popcorn Poetry

It's always surprising to me how some people take things literally that are meant to be figurative if you get my drift...  Writers are prolific creatures in their use of allegory, metaphor, simile, and what not because that is what writers do.  If I said I were a butterfly do you expect me to be one?  Or do you get that I was trying to make a point?

There is a difference between a moron and an airhead...  Petty is as petty does...  Here's another petty one...

Shades of Citrus

Shine Bright