Day 3- 30 Day Writing Challenge
What are your top 3 pet peeves?
What are my top three pet peeves? Sadly, I am easily
annoyed. It is one of the besetting sins that I deal with and can’t seem to get
completely free from. Still, I can
easily pick the three things that annoy me easier than anything else; being
lied to, laziness, and blatant rudeness.
Everyone is guilty of the “little white lie”, like “I’m fine”
when you feel like crap or “No, I didn’t want any more, you take the last piece”
when you’re at a church picnic. We all occasionally tell people they look okay
when what you really mean is “don’t you own a mirror?” What I hate more than anything else is
someone being deceitful, especially if it is someone I love or who claims to
love me. When my children lied growing up, that and unbridled rebellion would
get them in worse trouble than the thing they were lying about, and I always
found out the truth. In my opinion, a
lie changes the relationship altogether because where there is no trust, there
is no real intimacy.
Laziness is another thing that sets my teeth on edge. I have
always been of the mind that if you have to do something, you may as well get it
done. Perhaps this is because I am the oldest and always seemed to be
responsible for the other children, the general housekeeping, and sometimes
even the meals and I knew that if it wasn’t done there would be help to pay if
it wasn’t done. It might also be because I have been so ill I couldn’t do
anything other than lie in bed and I felt so useless. It irks me when I see
someone who is able bodied refusing to get all they can out of life or at least
do what they can in life.
Blatant rudeness is the least of my top three because
rudeness is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. My youngest child for example has a weird
sense of humor and frankly many people just don’t get it. Often her wit is
received as rudeness but I know she is trying to be funny and nothing more. I
have cautioned her that she has to be careful but she thinks I’m just an old
sour puss. Still, there are some people whose rudeness is unmistakable and pointed
like a sword. For instance; young people who make fun of the elderly simply because
they are older and slower or people who go out of their way to reveal someone
else’s weakness or faults, especially publicly.
As I said, there are a great many things that annoy me and I
have worked to bring this number down considerably over the years. I’m made
progress, but I’m still so far from “chill” that I find that I’m often annoyed with
myself. Hmmmm.
So, there is Day 3 my peeps. I hope you have been considering
your own 30 day writing challenge, but if that is too big a bite to take, how
about a 7 day writing challenge? How about an every Saturday writing challenge?
Anything to get the juices flowing is a start. Happy writing y’all; I’d love to
see what you write and love to hear what you think about mine.
Till next time, Peace.
TheWritingMommy
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