Intruder
It's a little difficult to scrutinize myself today. As I try to come up with an image for this post, I just happen to look out my bedroom window and see my neighbor pulling into the drive... alone. She probably is returning from MD Anderson where her husband receives cancer treatments. At 38, he was recently diagnosed with colon cancer and has a few short months to live. I feel like an intruder as I watch her take the dog for a walk with her baby in tow. I wonder what she must be thinking as I sit here obsessed with myself and a few extra pounds.
posted by Christi Nielsen at 10:23 AM
6 Comments:
I know how you feel. I feel really selfish and somewhat guilty for my own vanity (it is vanity)... Thinking my problems are so much more important and real. Sigh.
I constantly feel like a jerk when I sit around, longing for...more crown moulding, for instance. How dumb is that??? And then I learn that a friend, or family member has real problems. I'm an idiot.
It takes things like that to help put our own lives into a more realistic perspective. I mean, sure, your problems are an issue to you, but are they on the same scale? No way. I find myself experiencing these types of wake ups every once in a while, and I'm glad to get them. Otherwise, I'd be too wrapped up in myself and my own problems.
We all need that kind of reality check every so often. There's always someone in the world with bigger problems than I could ever imagine.
Love the art. big fan.
It's good you can recognize that you've just had a reality check. As an obsessive/compulsive person, I, too, get caught up in my own head and forget that I really am not all that important in the affairs of every other single person on this planet. Of course we matter to our friends and family, and to strangers we interact with, but how we see ourselves, for better or worse, is not all that important. Oh man, do I struggle with this every single moment of my life, but these little reality-check-pinches from the cosmos help for a while to put it all in perspective. Your blog today reminds me to step out of my head/ego and claim my place as more than an image, as a member of the human race. No more, no less.
Janis
(memaxmarz from flickr)
This problem with our reality and everyone elses...we each have own on personal hell that we go through. It might not be the same as the person next to us, but it is a personal hell nonetheless. Untill recently I use to say, if something disrupted my day, at least I am safe here and no one is shooting at me. That kept me calm and reasonable, maybe I should get back to remember that. But don't discredit the issues that you deal with, knowing that they might be minor the the neighbors, will help you in the long run deal with them.
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