At the risk of sounded jaded, it is really hard to impress me…if you talk to me about how many degrees you have, how much money you earned, what your kids have accomplished, I will be happy for you…but not impressed…because I have discovered that people who start regaling you with all that stuff right off the bat are trying too hard to impress…case in point, recently I saw someone, who I hadn’t seen in many, many years and within the space of five minutes, and it may have been four, they told me their mate’s accomplishments, their children’s and slipped in how they lived a life of leisure. I didn’t know what to do with the information, so I wrapped my arms around them and gave them a hug, while exhaling…because I knew that for some reason, that still remains mysterious, they wanted to impress me…
Now, sometimes I hear conversations or see or read things that do leave me impressed, elderly women who go to hospitals and rock the babies with aids, missionaries who go into areas locally and abroad and place their very lives at risk to assist and provide care to disenfranchised people, folk who can work all day in the scorching heat outside, to provide food, clothing and shelter for their children…those things I find very impressive…
I am always happy for people who are getting their heart desires met…graduating college, buying their first home, getting promoted…I think all those are wonderful things, just not things that I measure people by or really care all that much about. Someone made mention that I had accomplished a lot of stuff…and that they were impressed…
I told them not to be, that most of what has occurred in my life have been straight-up blessings and that I just happened to be Blessed over and over again….that seems to frustrate people…one day I was standing in line with a friend at lunch and it really pizzed her off that I wasn’t more thrilled by the young lady who had recognized me and told me about loving my books…I told her I was thrilled, down to my very essence an d pleased that someone took the time to read my work…but on the other hand I am a realist and know for a fact that being impressed by people is fleeting because all a person has to do is have one personal transgression and those who will stop being impressed are many…
So while I am happy for any and everything you accomplish and have…there is never a need to impress me, because if I am feeling you, I am feeling you…accomplishments, not withstanding…
Angelia
www.angeliamenchan.com
