Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share part of the evening around a virtual kitchen table with readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another.
Drop by and tell us about your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper. Newcomers may notice that many who post diaries and comments in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table, and hope to make some new friends as well.
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THIS IS AN OPEN THREAD
Nothing is Off the Table
But play nice!
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot?
… and never brought to mind?
Is there someone in your life who, down through the years, has become harder and harder to remain friends with?
Someone from whom you have grown apart?
Then let the new year bring you surcease from guilt and pain, choose yourself over this nebulous person who need not be named — but who should be framed as a symbol of your past, and left there.
Like I keep on telling people (some of whom have actually listened):
You can live in the past, or you can live for the future.
But you can’t do both at the same time.
Choose one.
About 15 years ago, I gave up on the love of my life, and chose me instead. It was a rough road for a few years, but in the long run, it was the right choice.
How about y’all, anyone ever cut loose the debris and driftwood dangled up in your life and set sail without all of that baggage dragging you down? How did your journey turn out for that choice, has the guilt wreaked havoc on you, or has the serenity of a life without all the drama and angst been one of quiet satisfaction and fulfillment?