Monday
18Jan2010
I'm a SKUNK!
Monday, January 18, 2010 at 10:46PM
*This isn’t a diabetes-related post, but something I wanted to share with you guys.*
If you see a little skunk pop up on my blog page from time to time, don’t worry. There is a story behind it….
While talking with my sister over Facebook chat tonight, we were talking about a discussion that came up in her Sunday School lesson. It was about how there are two different kinds of people when it comes to difficult situations: There are the rabbits – people who run and scamper away from confrontations with others. Then, there are the skunks. They are cautious, but they "handle" the situation when confronted. You cross their territory, and you’d better be ready to take what the skunk can dish right back to you.
My sister and I are a lot alike in some ways, but not when handling situations. We are opposite ends of the pole. She is the rabbit. I love her to death, but she can’t handle confrontation very well. She would rather it not happen. She will do anything in her power to avoid it and never let someone who has hurt her know that they have wronged her. I, on the other hand, am the opposite. I am one that you can hang around and test me, but I will let you know in a hurry where I stand and won’t mind it at all. I have often been accused of being too honest sometimes. I get this from my dad, and have tried “toning it down a bit”, but sometimes, it shows through.
While we were continuing in our conversation, it reminded me of when I was younger and my little brother was just learning our names. For the life of me, I don’t know why he couldn’t say “Sarah”, but he could say “Flower”. So, for a while, my name to him was Flower. Don’t hold me to it, but I think it was my mom that made the reference to “Flower”, the skunk, in Bambi when all of this was going on. I was reminded of this tonight when my sister and I were talking about the whole rabbit-skunk discussion. I got quite a laugh to myself when putting all of this together because it was just today that I remembered the whole Bambi-Flower incident because I was searching for flower clipart and this cute little picture came up. So, my nickname will either be “Flower” or “Skunk” now. I told my sister that from now on, her nickname for me to call her will be “Rabbit”. (That reminds me, I gotta change that in my iPhone when I get done). Or I’ll just pick and call her Thumper from time to time. We’ll see.
If you see a little skunk pop up on my blog page from time to time, don’t worry. There is a story behind it….
While talking with my sister over Facebook chat tonight, we were talking about a discussion that came up in her Sunday School lesson. It was about how there are two different kinds of people when it comes to difficult situations: There are the rabbits – people who run and scamper away from confrontations with others. Then, there are the skunks. They are cautious, but they "handle" the situation when confronted. You cross their territory, and you’d better be ready to take what the skunk can dish right back to you.
My sister and I are a lot alike in some ways, but not when handling situations. We are opposite ends of the pole. She is the rabbit. I love her to death, but she can’t handle confrontation very well. She would rather it not happen. She will do anything in her power to avoid it and never let someone who has hurt her know that they have wronged her. I, on the other hand, am the opposite. I am one that you can hang around and test me, but I will let you know in a hurry where I stand and won’t mind it at all. I have often been accused of being too honest sometimes. I get this from my dad, and have tried “toning it down a bit”, but sometimes, it shows through.
While we were continuing in our conversation, it reminded me of when I was younger and my little brother was just learning our names. For the life of me, I don’t know why he couldn’t say “Sarah”, but he could say “Flower”. So, for a while, my name to him was Flower. Don’t hold me to it, but I think it was my mom that made the reference to “Flower”, the skunk, in Bambi when all of this was going on. I was reminded of this tonight when my sister and I were talking about the whole rabbit-skunk discussion. I got quite a laugh to myself when putting all of this together because it was just today that I remembered the whole Bambi-Flower incident because I was searching for flower clipart and this cute little picture came up. So, my nickname will either be “Flower” or “Skunk” now. I told my sister that from now on, her nickname for me to call her will be “Rabbit”. (That reminds me, I gotta change that in my iPhone when I get done). Or I’ll just pick and call her Thumper from time to time. We’ll see.
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