5 Weekend Realizations

5 Weekend Realizations

Mood: Chill

Track: Tracy Chapman: Fast Car

Greetings blogworld. I pray that this entry finds you all in the best of health and the highest of spirits. It's been a lil while since we last spoke and I apologize for that. Life as I know it has been a roller coaster ride of rises and falls...and I wouldn't change a thing.

I am adjusting well to Georgia. I think so anyway. I am meeting people (slowly) and getting out of the house. Work still consumes most of my time and writing consumes a vast majority of my leisure time, but I try to relax here and there.

This past weekend was definitely one for the history books. Not only did I enjoy the various festivities in which I partook, I also learned a little about myself. So, here are the Top 5 Realizations I Had this weekend.

5. PEOPLE WILL ACCEPT ANYTHING IF YOU MARKET IT RIGHT

The BET Awards aired last night and I couldn't help, but laugh at some of the nonsense that my peers accepted. First of all, Trey Songz. Studio Trey is okay. He still gives a bit of the 3 billy goats gruff in his vibrato, but it's tolerable. Live, it ruins my life. Then he rips off his shirt to distract from the fact that he sounds like he swallowed a chain saw and drank a lemon chaser. Unacceptable people. Secondly, Beyonce. She's beautiful and talented and she definitely puts on a show, but she and BET worked together and pulled an Ashton Kutcher on everyone. We all got punk'd. The show continued to hype the "performance of the night" and promote "Queen Bey" and when it came time to deliver, she was broadcast live via satellite from England. I had to laugh when I saw the clip...kinda anticlimactic, huh?

4. I'M KINDA RUDE

But please allow me to explain. I'm not rude intentionally. I'm more so misunderstood. When I am put in a situation with individuals that I don't know, I usually sit back and observe. I am outgoing, but usually not initially. It has been brought to my attention before that it can be misinterpreted as rude. This weekend I took it to a new level by retreating to the fortress of my text messages or the solitude of my twitterverse. Alas, I was called out and guilted into getting off my phone. I'm glad because I ended up meeting cool people and having a great time.

3. I'M AM NOT A HATER

Now, I've never thought of myself as a hater, ever. If anything, I am usually the hatee lol. This weekend, while talking with friends, I often caught myself giving them words of encouragement and advice without judgement. I think this is a great trait to have. Not only do I want success, I want my friends to be successful as well. I'm even hosting a resume workshop where we work on our resumes, cover letters, and interview skills.

2. I'M OLD

I actually came to this realization two weeks ago while attempting to play football with some young whipper snappers. We weren't tackling or anything, yet when the game was over, every part of my body needed a time out and or a substitution...and I work out! Often! There is no reason my body should have reacted the way it did, just rude. I went out to dinner with some strangers who turned into acquaintances and a few have the potential to become friends. After dinner, they all had plans of going to a night club (I desperately wanted to call it a disco tech, but I fought it...and won). I declined the invitation to cut a rug (that's what we call dancing, for the youngins). By the end of the night, several people were calling me "pops" and "gramps". I think they think I'm old too. I have accepted the facts that I am more mature than most people my age and I have an old soul, so I feel extra old.

1. THE WORLD DOESN'T PAUSE WHEN YOU'RE NOT AROUND

This sounds like it would be a no brainer, but it was still strange for me to log onto Facebook and see my friends and family doing things without me. My entire life we're only lived our lives together and when I left to find myself a midst an unfamiliar world, it didn't really occur to me that their lives would go on. I guess I wanted them to place their lives on pause until I returned at which time I would press "resume" and things would go back to the way they were. That's not what happened at all. My old college friends are all getting married and my old flames are all having children. My nieces and nephews and getting bigger and smarter every day and I'm just getting older. Life is funny like that.

Until we meet again,

Peace and love...