I see the light.....

I used to pride myself on the ability to see into someone and find their true character. I have had enough false people in my life to give me plenty of practice starting off at a very young age. So I find myself a bit lost this last year or so, I seemed to have misplaced it. I can't weed out the bull shit anymore, at least not well, I am not sure what that means. People may not like me but I find it unnecessary to hide my character, I think you should lay it on the line, not to be hurtful but because who has the time to present a false front. Not that I have never put forth a fake face but those times are far and few between.

I have learned SO much in the past few weeks about my unhappiness, the lack of sincerity in others and people's general negativity....I got sucked in, that's where I lost it - my ability to hunt down the bull shit, it's hard to find the bull shit when you are swimming in it - forest for the trees and all....well, I am getting out....there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it is fast approaching and I am looking forward to a whole new me at the other end, or rather rediscovering me at the other end!! Most likely my true character, the one I lost while floundering in the muck, will be waiting, ever so patiently, to smack me upside the head, followed politely after with a "what the hell?"....oh, wait, maybe that will just be my hubby......

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. - Hermann Hesse

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. - Isabelle Eberhardt

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. - Faith Baldwin

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is so largely affected by association, that we cannot afford to be indifferent as to who or what our friends are. - Unknown

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. - Unknown

You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into. - Stephen Covey

Do you smell something? Oh, wait, that's me....

Sidenote: I am quite amused by being able to add a song each time I do a quote post but man it takes way too much brainpower....hence the late song this time around........it is one of my new favorites....Linkin Park makes me happy, just enough angst mixed with thought provoking lyrics, no really, I am serious......