# 10 - Don't sweat the small stuff
# 9 - Being mean blows chunks
Am I too old and sophisticated to say that? I hope not, cause I really mean it. Jeff Dunham's character Walter notwithstanding, being mean blows chunks. Walter is endearing in his grumpiness, but on the whole mean people suck as the saying goes.
I remember one year for Halloween a group of folks from work dressed up as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and they needed their Grumpy. I dressed up as Grumpy and since I'm me, and I love a good stage, and since all the world's a stage, I acted the part, too. By 10am, I couldn't stand myself. How do grumpy people do it?
Yea...I know, there's technically a difference between mean and grumpy, but it's not a wide difference in my book. Both can be falsely charming and both can even wear a smile, but when it comes right down to it, both are real downers for everyone around them - even for themselves, in my opinion.
I remember a lady I used to work with. She was just about the epitome of mean and bitter. It was such a pleasure working with her. Really. I promise. I decided to respond to her with smiles as often as I could but I mainly decided that she was in my life to show me where I didn't want to go - where I didn't want to end up someday. We worked together while I was going thru my divorce, so I could have easily let the bitterness and resentment and meanness settle in, but thankfully A was there to remind me who I could become in 20 years if I did so. Yuck. Thanks, but no thanks.
That's all. I'll make this one a short DD, since most people already know # 9 is true. But a little reminder every now and again can't hurt. Cause when it comes right down to it - mean is easy; grumpy doesn't take any work. We all slip into them from time to time. But they both blow chunks.
And I'm just old enough these days that I think about how I'll be remembered. And I really hope it's not as Grumpy the Dwarf.
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