This is Garbo. She had a bath today, and now that I look at the photo closely... I see that it looks like she might be cursing with her middle claw there. And this makes me laugh. Because here I am cursing in my title to this podcast, listen and you’ll see why :)
Also, a quick thank you to the Adorn Magazine blog for including me in this post about Crafty podcasts. Very cool, a magazine about "the crafty girl’s guide to embellishing life", I need to check this out, along with these crafty podcasts! I loved the "love letters" reference. Thank you Kayte!
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I think your message is a good one because so many people give up when someone doesn't believe in them. It makes me really upset when I see this, I almost majored in Psychology because I felt so strongly about motivating people to move forward, not live in the past, not live a stagnant existence, make PROGRESS and not give a $%# what people think -- or if you do, at least use the negativity they spew to push you forward -- channel their energy into something GOOD for you.
I think that everyone cares what someone else thinks on a certain level. I care about what my husband thinks. I care about what my friends think. But you can't care about what people that aren't a normal part of your everyday life think when it comes to their opinion of you. If someone doesn't know you very well but has a very big, nasty opinion of you, then that's when you can't care because they have limited knowledge of you, they really know nothing, so who cares what they have to say? But then again, I think teachers that are with students an entire semester can impact a student with a crazy comment, but in that case, I think it builds character. I think we need negative comments to refine us and get us to the next step. It's kind of like animals in the wild. I was watching this nature program about a hornbill and it's babies. They live in this tree and the hornbills responsibility is to get out of the tree as it matures, it needs to fly out of the hole. In the show I watched, all the babies flew out except one. The father was across the way, in another tree, calling to it to fly out but he just wouldn't. He wasn't strong, he was a bit of a wimp I guess. But the sad part is that these birds only have a limited time to escape the tree or else all the bees come and attack and eat it. Horrible story, I know. But the end result was that because the bird couldn't get the courage to fly, he was attacked and killed by bees and the father watched. You could hear him crying in the background. Tragic.
But in nature, if that bird did make it out of the tree, he would have been killed another way because he was a weakling. That's what I mean about character and building confidence and sometimes this comes through adversity and stress. I actually think some of the BEST developments in history, the best inventions, the best outcomes, came from adversity.
Recipe for success can sometimes go like this:
Take a person with a strong belief in what they want in life + a person they respect against them and fighting them = the person pushing harder and in the end becomes more successful.
Or it can go like this:
The person gives up because they didn't want to fly.
Marisa -- great message. You can really develop that topic in future podcasts for sure.