Hand out your love

Once again, I found myself on my Friday post date without a post. And not inspired to write anything.

It’s summer and I don’t know if it is heat-induced laziness or the fact that I am working on about 5 other projects that have more of my attention than my post. Either way, I was reading the newspaper this morning, hoping that something would inspire me. I read articles about presidential candidates traveling, banks going under, builders (large and small) trying to stay in business, a once almost-dried up lake now making a comeback, a nice man who aids stranded motorists at his own expense. Nothing inspired me until I read a story about a woman who killed herself as her house was being foreclosed.

As the story was reported, the woman sent a fax to her mortgage company stating that by the time they foreclosed on her house, she would be dead. When the company read the fax and called authorities, they arrived at the house to find her dead body and a suicide note to her husband and son telling them to take the insurance money and pay for the house. The article also states that she took care of the finances and her husband had no idea they were in foreclosure.

Immediately, I hated the big, bad, bank. We have 4 foreclosures in our neighborhood of probably 150 homes at this moment. And I know times are hard – my husband told me last week he was taking a paycut.

I’m not one to get sucked into things that I know nothing about, but I felt sorrow and pity for this woman. Obviously so alone in life that she couldn’t confide in her spouse or son, she took her own life as her big solution.

There are times when I have felt so backed into a corner that I just wanted to run. To get away and start new. And in my most acute moments of suffering, there was always someone in my life that continued to grate away at my raw spots. It took alot to stick around and play the rest of the game. And I’m still doing it.

Be nice to other people, no matter who they are – you don’t know what kind of day they are having. Talk to the ones you love, find out what is really going on in their life. I heard a quote yesterday that made me think: “It was when I started handing out love that I began to receive it back”.

Give lots of hugs and kisses!