P.M.S: Pretty Much Sick of EVERYTHING!!

Why the HECK did God create PMS??? At least, I HOPE that's what I'm dealing with right now (I need some sort of excuse, ya know)?!?! What the heck is P.M.S. anyway and what REALLY causes it?? HMMMMM??

Let me explain my SUDDEN MOOD change...

Everything is going seemingly perfect and SMOOTH in my life and all of a sudden I wake up one day with the infamous, "I don't care" attitude...the attitude in which I'm known for SABOTAGING anything good in my life because it's EASIER to just care LESS about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING?? The attitude where I should wear a sign for people to see, "GET OUT OF MY WAY OR ELSE"!!!

YUP! That's the attitude I suddenly woke up with today!! AUGHHHHHHH!!!! Where you want to snap the head off of any annoying person who moves too slow or gets in your path?? Okay, I just realized this attitude must have started yesterday...when I was at the grocery store shopping with my boys, or should I call them monkeys with the way they were climbing in, on and AROUND my grocery CART?? OMGAWSH!!! SOOOOO ANNOYING SOMETIMES!!!

Let's NOT forget to mention the little old lady in the motorized cart who kept following me around, right at my heels, to EVERY FREAKING SHELF I was shopping from... then pulling up and parking herself in front of me EVERY time I stopped to reach for something?!?!?! I was seriously looking around for a camera wondering if this was all a BIG JOKE and I was getting "Punked" in the middle of "Macey's" or something??

Well...

I thought I had FINALLY ditched her, quickly cutting my cart across to the doughnut section which my boys had eyed. We were JUST discussing which doughnuts my boys had decided on and I was about to reach for a wax tissue to stake my claim when ALL OF A SUDDEN guess who SCOOTS RIGHT IN like NO BIG DEAL on her motorized scooter!?!?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I REALLY wanted to scream JUST like that at that VERY moment...instead, I bit my lip, took a VERY DEEP BREATH, and waited as patient as I could, all while I was really wanting to ATTACK her, drive her cart off and crash it into the produce section so she couldn't get in my way any longer?!

As I stood there, with my boys, watching the seemingly "QUEEN of ALL things Irritating", I took a step back and looked at the WHOLE picture...

There, seated in the motorized grocery shopping scooter (similar to the ones I used to steal with my friends in High School, and ride around the store til we got caught and kicked out), was a little old lady with a big brace which covered her leg from her foot to her knee. She was maneuvering her cart back and forth, as if she was trying to parallel park the thing next to the doughnuts?! At first I was thinking, "You've GOT to be kidding me?!"

I realized as she kept trying to reach for the doughnuts, repositioning herself and her cart so as to NOT fall to the floor, with a leg that CLEARLY wasn't working normally and stuck in a GIANT brace, how SELFISH I had been and SO TOTALLY caught up in my MYSELF, as to NOT previously see the situation before I had SO misread it, thus causing MYSELF more grief than necessary!

I quickly asked the lady if I could help. "Two Fritters" is all she wanted and I quickly bagged them up and handed them to the woman...the lady who previously had irritated me SO badly I wanted to cause her and her cart injury (NOT really my style, but that's definitely how I felt inside from the whole experience)!!

She thanked me, smiled a gracious smile and in that single moment ALL of my frustrations simply melted away!! I realized how even on our seemingly WORST days, someone ALWAYS has it worse off. If we just look outside ourselves and change the way we perceive others around us, we will be more compassionate and less quick to judge. Anyway, isn't that how we hope others will treat us in the same situation?? :)

Albert Schweitzer once said...

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

I am grateful for the little lesson I learned in the grocery store last night. It was another lil reminder to me of what's MOST important and how I need to remember to always be thinking outside myself and thinking "What can I do to ease another's burden?" May this be a lesson for ALL of us! :)

Just thought I'd share!!

LUVS!