{"id":1476,"date":"2018-07-18T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T03:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2018-07-18T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T03:53:38","slug":"getting-it-off-my-chest-by-steve-liddick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"GETTING IT OFF MY CHEST by Steve Liddick"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog regards the down side of complaining by award-winning author and publisher, Steve Liddick.\u00a0 I you are unfamiliar with Steve’s works, they can be found here: www.steveliddick.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I specifically posted this in mind of all the T1Ds around the world.\u00a0 You have been heard.\u00a0 This “reflection” is proof.\u00a0 Now, where was I?\u00a0 Oh….<\/p>\n

GETTING IT OFF MY\u00a0CHEST<\/a><\/h1>\n
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\"\"<\/a>REFLECTIONS<\/p>\n

by Steve Liddick<\/p>\n

“You know how people say, \u201cI don\u2019t like to complain, but . . .?\u201d Well,\u00a0<\/em>I don\u2019t like<\/em> to complain, Not just because it doesn\u2019t do a bit of good to moan about this and that. No, I try to avoid complaining around other people because they don\u2019t want to hear it. They have their own problems and don\u2019t need to take on mine.<\/p>\n

“You want to kill a conversation, just start complaining about something\u2014anything\u2014and watch as people drift away from you. The more often a discouraging word is heard, the more cloudy the skies are all day.<\/p>\n

“Complaining takes many forms. Say you\u2019re at a four-way stop intersection and some clodhopper pulls out in front you when it\u2019s not his turn. You lay on your horn, make all kinds of specialty hand gestures, and scream nasty bits about the offender\u2019s maternal parentage.<\/p>\n

“Who do the other two drivers at the intersection get upset with? Not the aforementioned clodhopper who cut you off. They stare white-hot daggers at the guy making the fuss. Nobody likes a complainer?<\/p>\n

“When people greet you with \u201cHi, how you doin\u2019?\u201d you are expected to say, \u201cGreat, how\u2019re you?\u201d Start unloading woes on them and watch as their eyes glaze over and they remember meetings they\u2019re late for.<\/p>\n

“I am here to tell you that, while nobody wants to hear your beefs, it is injurious to one\u2019s health to keep it all bottled up. Something has got to give. An outlet must be found for the steam that is building, threatening to explode your head.<\/p>\n

“Mental health professionals are of no use at all. In fact, when they say, \u201cand how do you feel about that?\u201d you know they\u2019re not really listening and that just ticks me off that much more.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t even get it out of my system by yelling at my wife. She knows where the frying pans are and I have to sleep sometime.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog regards the down side of complaining by award-winning author and publisher, Steve Liddick.\u00a0 I you are unfamiliar with Steve’s works, they can be found here: www.steveliddick.com. I specifically posted this in mind of all the T1Ds around the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}