Saturday, May 26, 2007
cainer says and i react...
It's never quiet in your life for long. Always, there's a knock on the door. 'Can you help me?' Or the phone rings. 'I'm sorry to bother you but...' Now you, of course, like to pretend that you are tough and together. You are no sucker for a sob story. Nobody takes you for a ride. The marines are very interested when you tell them this. The rest of us, though, have seen you in action. We know just how crazily kind you can be. This weekend, though, you know exactly where to draw the line...My life is not always quiet but I do not mind. I actually like being given the chance to help other people. I am not bothered if people come up to me if it means making a positive difference in that person's life no matter how small that difference may be. I can be tough and together but I crash and burn sometimes only I rise up to tell the tale of second chances. I am a sucker for sob stories. I bawl over cartoons but these days I am learning to take it all in minus the tears. Sometimes people take me for a ride but somehow they never get to the part where they hurt me so much I can't recover. The marines have never seen me in action and I do not want their interest so people who know me well will understand when I say there is no line to be drawn because the people I love are just as crazily kind to me. So Cainer, as always, makes sense and in fact he always has this freaky way of getting a hint of my future right but as in the season ender of my other favorite tv series heroes - the future is not written in stone - so armed with compassion and love we have to keep on fighting for our own happy endings.
(2:01 PM) ♥ tal
