Apr 5, 2006

Regrets

You are faced with a difficult choice. Do you take the more difficult road just because you are afraid of regretting anything? Or do you take the easy way out only to discover you are constantly asking yourself "what ifs?"

I personally cannot bear a future of what ifs, so I find myself always choosing the harder route. For all I know the easier route could be deceiving as well.

I find fear to be a factor of a lot of things in my life. I am afraid to offend, so most of the time I quietly seethe about things rather then bring things up. That is not always the best thing to do, because I might blow up on someone someday!

You always hear things about people losing their inhibitions when they are older and are able to say or do things that they were otherwise shy about years ago. I wonder if that will be me...

3 comments:

Catherine said...

Yaya, I'm a seether too. Then I have digestive problems, muscle spasms, and migraines. Wonder why?

But all that "telling it like it is" can be stupid too. Occasionally restraint must be exercised. As usual, striking the balance is the difficulty.

Marie said...

I totally agree with "telling it like it is" you can't be like that all the time.

Its hard for me to bring up something that bothers me in a pefectly nice way. That's why I don't bother. I'm so afraid to offend because I can't hide my true feelings when I do speak.

I'm going to have to learn how to speak up, in a tactful manner. I've declined speaking about 2 things recently...and that's not a good feeling either.

Catherine said...

Me too!