I didn't think I would care one way or the other about this - if anything I was feeling a little annoyed at the extra distance I will now have to drive - but interestingly - I'm a little bit excited now that the day is approaching. It opens this wednesday, down in our end of the city - a Walmart Supercenter. It's huge!! Yes - we drove by it. I grew up in a small town. That's what you do - you drive by the new stuff - it's very exciting. Anyway - did I mention that it is huge! and all new and shiny. I like new and shiny things :) It has groceries and all you could ever want. I feel a little guilty - big corporation taking business away from everyone else - but, selfishly, I now have a one stop shop without going all the way over to the Superstore on the East End. So that'll be my big adventure one of these days - going to Walmart! :). I will miss having the mall attached though. I'm not sure about living in one of the coldest inhabited climates in the world and having to go from store to store. Whose idea was it to have all these separate box stores anyway.... oh well, that's a whole separate rant.
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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