I was talking to a friend the other day and she was going on and on about how she is 50 pounds overweight, she’s the pickiest eater, she was raised that way because her family is all that way, she hates vegetables and most fruits, and after listening to her for sometime I just had to say whoa, stop. What are you talking about. It kind of made her stop and look at me in a funny way.
She wasn’t expecting me to be so abrupt. It looked like she was really in shock come to think of it. But then sometimes maybe we need to be shocked, we need to be shaken out of our old familiar way that isn’t working. Maybe somebody needs to come along and given her face and just tell us the truth they see and not just listening to our endless ranting and raving about how the old way is working. I wonder if I’d be willing to hear someone if they did that to me? Well I guess if I do it to someone else enough times maybe they’ll go back and get to see, but I hope I’m willing to listen because I think that would be a good thing[.