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A Great Day To Blurt, Try It!
Astrology in real life
Jupiter is squaring the Sun and Mercury in the aggressive sign of Aries and this is an excellent time to blurt your truth (Jupiter)! To assertively (Aries) tell people (Mercury) who you are (Sun). To define yourself (Jupiter in Capricorn)…
Now a long time ago (18 years?) I was contemplating getting a bumper sticker for my car and when I mentioned this to my sister she laughed her head off.
“You? What do you need a bumper sticker for? You’re the last person who needs a sticker on their car.”
“Yeah?”
“Well, yeah. Bumper stickers are for people who can’t or don’t know how to make a statement so they get this little piece of paper and let it make a statement for them but you don’t need something like that?”
“No?”
“No, hell no! Someone wants to know what you think, you’ll stop the car and get out and tell them. You’ll get right in their face and tell them whatever the hell they want to know…”
She was right and the sky favors this at them moment. I did make a statement in my meeting yesterday, I sounded like this:
“Look. I am a do-gooder. I am a dooooooooo- gooder. I don’t care who knows it, I am not ashamed of my do-gooding, I don’t mind being a do-gooder - I have been at it for a long time, like about 40 years so I think this is my authentic self. I am the kind of person who does good and I don’t care if you like it, don’t care if I like it, it just is. I am the kind of person who gives their blood, I am the kind of person who goes down and registers their bone marrow and I just basically do good all day long and all night too - I have done this for a very long time so I am not likely to stop. And I don’t know what you think of me or what you have heard about me or what your paper says there but I guarantee if you investigate this you will find I am telling you the truth so there you go. That’s my statement, write it down.”
Okay, your turn.
Who are you?
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My ex-bf and I were at a concert one time, and there were some folks in front of us in wheelchairs, and an usher nearby, keeping random standing crowdmembers from pushing their way between the chairs in order to get somewhere. The usher had to go to the bathroom, and asked if I could keep an eye on the area for her, since I was standing nearby. I set up like an on-duty guard and by fuckit I KEPT people from walking through the wheelchairs and jostling my charges. I was polite, but militant.
Afterwards, my bf of the time told me how surprising it was to watch. “Most people would have just let it slide.”
“Yeah… I guess that’s why I don’t.”
I have priorities. I let most things slide. But if something happens, something bad, something that could be prevented from happening again by my saying something, I speak up. If it’s something small that concerns someone I care about very much, I speak up.
You know how a group of people will be gossiping about someone and you may feel uncomfortable, but you don’t want to say anything about it? I’m the one who says something about it. You know how a family or other group can get together and maybe have a nice bigoted shindig about some other group? I’m the one who says it’s not cool.
I’m the one who says, “This project isn’t right yet, and I’m willing to be the one who stays late and gets it right, but even if it’s not me, someone is going to.” I’m the one who confronts the person who’s acting like a nutcase around me because he/she has a beef they won’t talk about. I’m the one who says, “You’re better than what you just did.” I’m the one in the crowd of Yes-men who says, “Now, wait just a damn minute.” I don’t wait for anybody else to take it on for me. It’s nice when I get supporters after the fact, but when there’s a glacial silence, I’m the one with the icepick.
I’ve been loved for it and hated for it. One thing I’ll never be is popular, and that’s okay. Even people who hate the way that I am need me to be here, because when someone shits on their head, guess who’s going to make some noise? Me. I’m not the life of the party, and I don’t have to be. What I am is the someone you can trust.
It bothered me for years that I get into a lot of disagreements with people, seemingly compulsively, when the fact is I hate arguing. I kept wondering why I was doing it, when it hurt so bad? Why was I being so stupid? It took me a long time to realize why. Because I can’t live in a world without a me in it. Because I need someone I can count on to advocate for the things I think are good, and I’m the only one that falls under that heading. Because I can’t change people, but I can say what nobody else in the room wanted to say at least one time, and maybe it’ll prevent someone else from having to experience the pain that the silent people did.
I’m a stone guardian, and I don’t let people jostle my wheelchairs.
I only very, very recently learned to be proud of that.
I also happen to like bumper stickers.
I used to have one that said, “This car is protected by an anti-theft sticker!”
I’m definitely the type to let my bumpers speak for me. I used to wear a lot of pins with similar messages, including one that’s in that picture (this is not a dress rehearsal). When I blurt I tend to appall people with how hard on myself I can be.
I have done this for a very long time so I am not likely to stop.
Yeah, I have a track record of do-gooding myself. Or perhaps not, but it certainly seems like it.
Who are you?
I don’t believe the answer that comes up when I ask, so I ain’t tellin’.
max
[’Bumper stickers suck. You gotta peel ‘em off and crud. That would mess up my truck.’]
Right on ewinbee!
It might take a lifetime to tell you who I am?
In terms of bumper stickers, I like ‘Practice Random acts of Kindness’ and ‘Visualize Whirrled Peas’
too smart for my own good and usually not aware of how much so
i guess. also “too sensitive for…”
i think i probably need some redefining already. i’m not liking the look of either of those.
Deceptively steely. As in unbreakable. Truth is, I’m actually a cyborg. Ha!