Asperity: (adj) harshness of tone; a rough edge

Who gets to decide?

You or me?

I roll out of bed in the morning and begin to assimilate the events of my day and a certain emotional clog comes into my thinking.

Are these my real feelings?

Am I in a bad mood? (Of course, I am human, and therefore almost completely unwilling to admit that I’m in a bad mood.) I will relent that your obtuse actions may have put me in a bad mood. But what if I showed up that way?

What if some unremembered dream made me grouchy toward my circumstances and I woke up with a log lodged in my eye? My vision unclear, I still peer for your speck.

• When am I being needfully concerned for your well-being, and when is it just asperity in my personality that reflects an inner turmoil?
• Can I trust my feelings?
• Can I believe the press release sent out daily from my brain?
• Or should I question the powers-that-be within me because they are susceptible to the least little bit of disruption?
• What is real and what is just feel?
• Is it possible that I can damage others just simply because I’ve failed to fill in my own potholes?

I no longer believe that being a complainer or disgruntled is just a part of adult living. I will not sit around with other aging mortals and gossip about the lives of those who are younger just because I feel that maturity grants me license to bitch.

There is only one acceptable profile for human beings: humility.

If I’m going to have an opinion, I need to realize it can be wrong.

If I’m going to have faith in God, I must understand that He or She could be different from my perception.

And if I’m going to deal with others, I must concede that they have ideas, feelings, convictions and talents which could enhance our situation.

Asperity is not a logical or useful choice.

It is the foolish notion that just simply because we have emotions … that they are true.

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