Two Faces

Ok, so here we are in 2011. My biggest 2011 goal is to not let others bring me down.  I am doing whatever it takes this year to have more smiles and less tears. I am choosing who to be around by how they make me feel, sure it's tough at times to make a decision about spending time with someone you love, but if in the end it helps you to grow then I think it is necessary.

It's going to be a continual effort throughout the year...and it started already this past week.  I have come to the realization that I have "friends" who aren't really friends at all.  People who to my face tell me they love me, miss me, want to go to lunch, ya dee ya da... but they have a second face...one that would slight me without batting an eye.  So will the real face please stand up?  Or is everything a mask to these people?  Do they even know who they are inside? (What would be interesting to know is how many of you right now are wondering if I am talking about you...if I found out about the deceit behind your eyes...no names are given, so keep wondering, but lucky for you I am a forgiving person.)

At first I was kind of hurt, I will admit.  I let it get to me..a nag in the pit of my stomach that I really don't know who my friends are.  But then like a sunrise on the horizon, I had a peace and I knew no matter what others do to me I am still me and can still be a good person to them.  Whether they are being friend or fiend, or have one face or two doesn't matter...that doesn't change who I am and will be to them and the world.

This year I am going to work to be more real.  I don't want to ever be someone who people can call two faced or say that I wear a mask.  I am sure in my past I have done things that made people call me fake, or whatever, but I choose to be different.  Each day we have a chance to be a new person.  I am going to work to be more loving, accepting, kind hearted, respectful, and REAL and I want the people I love to help me be accountable in those goals. 

Matt Damon once said, "It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody." Well Mr. Damon..I have to disagree...I will keep my real, nobody life and rock it! We are what we make of it and I plan to be the happiest one faced person this side of the Mississippi!
Have a GOODloe Day!