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| Feel free to copy this to send to your own personal lost causes... |
My mom tells me all the time (or at least she used to until I told her to stop) that I have a tendency to pick up strays. That I'm the patron saint of lost causes (which is interesting on so many levels... Not the least of which is that I grew up Jewish)...
Hope springs eternal...
I keep believing the best about people. Even when they've let me down. Over and over and over again...
I keep believing that they can change... That they're going to change. And, for some reason that is unfathomable to me, I believe that they're going to...
I'm not generally a gullible person, but I'm willing to do anything to save something that once I believed in.
Even if I don't believe in it anymore.
I'll work myself to the bone to make it work. To give opportunity after opportunity until.... Well, come to think of it, I don't know until what....
Sometimes, perserverence and unwillingness to give up on something or someone is an admirable quality but, just like anything else done to excess, it's a problem.
Knowing when to say when is something that I've always struggled with... (Shocking, I know... [rolling eyes])
So, I really do have to learn to stop believing that people are going to change when they keep showing me over and over again that they're not.
I have to be willing to accept them for who they ACTUALLY are and not who I want them to be. It may be time for me to try being a quitter...
Are you continuing to believe in something that's not working and is never going to work? How do you become a quitter?
Just Keep Coming Back
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Great post and a great topic for me. As the old expression goes, "I'm like a cat sliding down a wall leaving claw marks" when it comes to letting go of way too many things.
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