Be less accommodating

I don’t know that I’ve entirely accomplished, but I’m better at it.
Maybe I’m more selfish? I don’t know… I’m more self aware…
but I’m mainly taking this off the list because i want the spot for another goal!

I’ll start by pushing down sweet old ladies, kicking baby carriages, and throwing rocks at homeless puppies.

I kid.

With the exception of the baby carriages, only because I’m tired of the extremely rude strollermoms in our neighborhood, who push their doublewide, fertility enhanced (not that there’s anything wrong with that), twin-mobiles, while three year-old Jessamine and Leopold, a nasty six year-old with sticky claws, block the only potential passing points on the sidewalk. In addition to path blocking, Leopold and Jessamine enjoy the vocal experimentation and toddler martial arts.

Strollermoms in Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, and Cobble Hill, before I met you, I liked children. Now, I find myself more often than not, on the brink of Loathing. Can you find it in your hearts to move your freely bouncing, ice-cream waving, screaming children out of my way so I can maneuver around your stroller? Please. Your children take their cues from you, and while I know this is a competitive world and perhaps you’re honing their cut-throat skills to better apply to pre-school, I think teaching consideration might have many benefits, especially with regard to teenage years.

That or I’m going to start swinging. Capisce?

Yours truly,

The girl with the heavy grocery bags in her hands

I generally am a pretty easy to please person, largely because given two choices, I’m often indifferent to the one chosen. This makes me indecisive, and try to figure out what will please others. Unfortunately, it bleeds over into the rest of my life—I find myself easily giving up on whatever I wanted, because someone else wants to do something else, or doing thins to help others that I really don’t have the time/ energy/ ability to do without detriment to myself.

This isn’t about not being a good, helpful person—I want to do all of that—its just about remembering that my opinions and time matter too.