RESPECT

I have a dear friend who did something pretty amazing. She admitted that she was wrong. Now, I don't know about you but when someone tells me that I did something wrong, I become defensive and excusive (I know that isn't a real word but you know what I mean when I write that...)

My friend, Mysti Lee, had a pretty frustrating day. She found out that her parents (they have their reasons) were taking back their car and phone that they had loaned to Mysti which resulted in her hubby not having a way to get to work. In a moment of passion, she wrote some very very strong explicatives on facebook for all to see, including me.

I have a really hard time with cuss words. I hear them and they stick in my mind and linger for days. Now, I don't cuss but my mind races with words that are pretty horrible and I have to try my hardest to not let them drowned my thoughts. So when I saw the explicatives printed right in front of my eyes on facebook where adult or youth could see, I just couldn't look the other way. (I don't like confrontation, I don't like telling people my opinions who are friends of mine but not ones that I see daily and who I am 100% myself with. I don't like to hurt people!) I had to say something to her, and I did. I wrote, "Why Mysti? You are so much more intelligent than that!"

Now, as little girls, it was funny because my sister, Kim, and my sister-in-law, Autumn, both were nanny's for Mysti's family. Vocabulary wise, Mysti's family had a lot more colorful things to say and when my sisters were babysitting for them, if the kids said bad words, they would get in trouble, a punch in the arm or something along those lines. (Punching the kids you babysit....not something I would do, but hey, whatever worked for them.)

So hearing me get after her for using such strong explicatives to vent her frustration, it knocked her back to her childhood. She knew she had done something innappropriate and instead of getting all huffed up and mad at me she sent me an apology. A real apology. A heartfelt apology. It meant so much to me that she would do that!

 And then, she went on Facebook and wrote this..."I said something today that i should not have said/posted. I got a reply from a great friend that knocked me bk to the old days of when her sisters used to babysit me and i would get punched in the arm for saying such words.. lol Well let me tell you i sure felt that punch today and i promise to watch what i post and say on this lovely facebook.. lol xoxoxox

Not only is she sorry for what she did, she is going to try and change her ways too. I don't know how much it matters to people if they have my respect but Mysti Lee Borum is at the top of my list. I look up to her for what she said to me and posted to everyone. Thank you Mysti for setting an example to me of taking criticism and becoming better because of it. Thank you so much!!!