Have you ever gotten chewing gum on the sole of your shoe in the summer? First you are upset that you didn't see it, maybe feel a little stupid. Next you call the person who was kind enough to leave the gift for you several names, none good, and may go so fart as to question his upbringing and intellect, as in stupid SOB. I guess we presume women don't chew gum and if they do they don't leave it in the parking lot. That is a misconception. If there is an SOB then someone has to be a B, 'nuff said.
There is also 'gum' that gets attached to our lives and to our souls. We get just as mad at ourselves and then at the situation that we stepped in. Getting gum off the soul of our shoes can be easier only because we can visibility see when it is removed. When it is attached to our lives it is not so easy to see it gone. We can feel like we have removed it all, but there will be moments when we say, "I'm not so sure, I still feel a little......"
I guess we have choices at this time. Do we just give up? Do we keep trying to get the damn thing out of our live? Do we accept it and learn to live with it? You see the gum in our lives is usually attached to someone in our life. So there in lies the quandary my friend. What price are we willing to pay to remove the gum. I don't believe we can get the gum out of our lives totally without being called a SOB or a B by someone.
Learn as much as we can. Be as educated as we can be. Live a long life and we are still just dodging gum in the parking lot.
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