I can’t find the delete button!

It was bound to happen one day ~ a slip of a finger and voila ~ a post published empty of words.  I don’t know about other bloggers, but sometimes I pre-write my posts when I find a picture that speaks to me and then in the morning, if I am not inclined to write about the Daily Prompt, I have a few posts to choose from ~ but this one, I had just found a picture of a phone when instead of hitting save, I hit publish!

YIKES!  An empty post!

Has this ever happened to you?

So, now I’m stuttering, if that’s even possible for a writer, because, I’m not that proficient in WP to find the erase button to  take the post away!  Where’s the REDO button or DELETE?  I guess I’ll have to forge onward with this post…ok, I’m ready.  I can do this.  Hold on tight my friends…this may be a wild post!

There’s something to say about this learning experience.  Have you ever said something that you didn’t mean?  It just escaped your lips without thinking?  Have you ever thought aloud only to find that you truly did say your thoughts out loud?  Have you ever spoken your mind only to have your listener not agree with your opinions?  Have you ever said something you wished you could take back?

I have.  And I’ve been the listener who wished she had never heard some things as well.

So what do you do when you make a faux pas?  Stick your foot in your mouth literally?  Pretend you didn’t mean it even when you did?  Laugh it off?  Act as if you didn’t say anything and look at the person with doe-eyed wonder at what they are upset about?  Turn around and change the subject?  Get angry at them for bringing it up?  Blame it on someone else?  Blame it on an illness?

I’ve seen all sorts of coping mechanisms to this problem ~ none of which helped the situation in the end because whatever was said in the heat of the moment, hangs in the air like the stench of a road kill skunk.  So what do you do?

First, try to move on.  Can you forget what’s been said to you?  Can your listener forget what you’ve said?

Was it the truth?  Was it your truth?  His/Her truth?  Was it a deal-breaker?  Or was it heart-breaking?

Can you pretend you’ve never heard it?  Can your listener?  Or was it something that once that cat’s been let out of the bag, that’s it?

This has been a hard post for me due to the nature of the beast and the fact that I was totally unprepared to write about it.  Perhaps it’s a good lesson for me to be more aware when I am looking through my photos/cards, in order to spark some inspiration for a post!

To me, honesty is the best policy ~ and a heartfelt apology is the best I can do!

So please forgive my mistake in hitting publish today!  I wish all of my mistakes were as easy as simply apologizing.  Perhaps they are? 

Perhaps that’s what’s needed when words escape you.  Simply speak from the heart, from the honesty that lies within us all.

Speak as you wish to be spoken to ~ ahh that’s the answer!

Shine On!

xo

PS.  All puns intended when SPEAKING about the phone, answering it etc! 🙂

Gratitude Day 11 ~ Thanks, Man!

Today’s gratitude goes to the service man who came out to our house and worked tirelessly to get our internet and phone service back yesterday after it had been out since the day before!  No internet meant no computer so no blogging ~ but because of his expertise, I am happy to report I have an entirely new system to work with and I am very happy!

Being thankful is so easy as there are tons of people who simply by doing their jobs, make our lives better, easier and happier.  Unfortunately I did not get his name, but I thought this card was funny since he was a man!  Perhaps it’s the little sleep that I’ve had since my Dad’s been in the hospital that makes this card give me a chuckle.  Hope it gives you one as well.

Thanks, man.

xo