No more

Written in retirement by me, for me..  

Power and control.

Both of these are affixed to one another in my view. Toss one, and you give up the other. Why on earth has it been so easy to give these steering mechanisms up to so many? Someone cuts me off in traffic, someone pisses me off at the doctor's office, and off I go with the anger and frustration that robs me of peace. No more.  

Relationships.

Business or personal, if your relationship is being controlled by someone other than you, it's a toxic poison and we are done. Too many times I have been guilty of spending my emotions pissing and moaning about what other people said or did instead of just closing out my contact with those who I have allowed to rob me of my peace. No more. 

Hard truth.

Whether family or friend, neighbor or casual acquaintance, if you and I don't speak regularly, and if all the contact we do have is via a computer and always initiated by me, then what we have doesn't actually rise to the level of a relationship and I'm done with you. I may think of you often and I might like to see you sometime for a face-to-face visit and to share with each other how life is going for us, but my care and concern for you at this stage of my life from this day forward, is going to be throttled down to match your care and concern or lack of it, for me.  

Life is too short to waste any more time on those who spend none of theirs on me.