I can relate

One of the (many) good things about my sisters is that I can wear my heart on my sleeve without feeling like I will be judged (or that it will cause an issue). This often leads to some quality discussions and a lot of I can relate to that!

After settling in, my older sister and I began talking about many life related topics. One of them being a previous blog in which I was asking the non-supportive persons to keep their opinions to themselves.
We started talking about how we both know people that can't keep their negative thoughts/opinions to themselves - not only with regards to our diets but our whole lifestyles. Hmm...How true! Most of the people who I think of as diet saboteurs are the same people that judge my lifestyle choices as well. Initially, I was irritated at the thought, but then - really - how sad is it that some people will never learn to be accepting. That somewhere in them they have the need to judge and put others down. Sad.
*Through another one of our weekend discussions we got onto the topic of tolerance (which was not related to saboteurs, but after giving it some thought was extremely helpful to my understanding of the saboteurs).*
The way I am breaking these type of people down is like this: it's kind of like the people who are going to try to sabotage (or put another down simply because they are jealous, or they "can't relate" or they just feel the need to be negative) are intolerant people. Intolerant people - who will probably always be intolerant, and will always have the need to put others down because they don't agree with their life choices or because other people are not the same as them. To me that is just sad, and I (almost) feel sorry for those people.

This obviously is my opinion. For me, this is how I need to view these people so that I can forget their negativity and focus more on the positive and getting myself to where I want to be.

So the next thing I need to work on is advocating more for myself with the people who I care about, and to remember that the saboteurs not only have issues of their own that they need to work on but their negativity is probably not about me, its about them.


Today is Scuba test day-yikes!

Got some grocery shopping done with many good choices and some YUMMY watermelon.

This quote just strikes a chord with my topic of the day:
"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future." - Hitler (yeah I know it's a little dramatic, but it makes my point)

xo
-K