People Who Matter

This is me.

I talk alot.

I have always talked alot.

Sometimes too much.

Sometimes I get talking and

I say things I'm thinking but

that aren't necessarily my opinion,

Or things that are my opinion but

come out sounding like something

totally different than what I really mean.

So sometimes I get home and realize

that I said something different than what I meant

or that I said something that

 may have sounded wrong

to some particular person,

or forgot to say something I should have.

And I get really really ticked at myself

and I HATE it.

When I was single and lived with roommates

and was around people who hadn't known me most of my life

(for the first time in my life)

I started to realize how often a person can be misunderstood

when people maybe just don't know where you came from.

So then in some situations, I would shut down

and get nervous, and just not say anything,

worried I would say the wrong thing...

I don't really have a "most embarassing moment"

but I've recently realized it's because I am

usually more embarassed by things I say or don't say,

 than by things I do.

aaanny way... whenever I used to be worried about

what I was wearing, or if I said something dumb,

or messed up in front of kids at school,

or if my hair looked funny one day,

the BEST MOTHER in the world

used to always remind me that

"the people who matter- don't care,

and the people who care- don't matter."

This is one way this quote helps me,

but there are MANY ways to apply it.

I AM LUCKY TO HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE

WHO DON'T CARE

if my hair isn't perfect

if my kid has a messy face

if I burn the biscuits

if I forget the paper plates

if I talk way too much and say something dumb

if I'm not perfect.

(I wish I could post a picture of every
single one of you but there would be too many.)

I hope that I can be someone who matters

to all those people too.