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You lose your grip and then you slip into the masterpiece.
I’d like to tell you that I’m even-tempered. That I keep a cool head when my patience or my sense of right and wrong are being tested. That the minute I feel my jaw clench in anger, I am able to say some kind of catch phrase like Breathe or Let It Go and I’m magically transported to the present where the stuff I’m losing my cool about hasn’t happened yet and may never ever happen at all. But I’d be lying.
Truth is, this is something I’m always trying to grow into and although I’m getting better at it, I may never master it. But that’s ok as long as I’m trying, right?
What seems funny to me is that when I’m in the midst of ‘losing it,’ I feel perfectly justified. Yet when I see someone else behave in a similar manner, My mouth forms the word WOW and I think to myself, ‘What a wacko.’
The Donald and how some of us react to him is a good example of this. “Oh those bad Canadians, they’re really screwing us over in the milk industry and softwood lumber industry by doing this and that and the bad Mexicans, something to do with chickens blah, blah, blah…and so I’m going to renegotiate to get us a better deal or just pull out of NAFTA all together.”
And then chaos ensues and people are running around to research if what he is saying is really true and if he can actually do what he says he going to do and the news is consumed with the silliest debates, things we all thought we were clear on like is the sky really blue and we wonder well is it and then we think, hey wait a minute… Ugh I GOT CAUGHT UP IN THIS AGAIN!
I’m seriously starting to wonder if he is a genius in the sense that he can so easily get us so wound up and I bet he’s having a nap, or reading the paper or doing laps in a pool, or worse working on something he doesn’t want the public to know about, while we are reacting to a non issue!
Well as it turns out, he can’t just pull out of NAFTA. The worst he can do is sign an executive order that indicates he would like to pull out in six months and then it would go through this huge process and many others would have to want to do the same – bottom line – it’s a process that goes way beyond Donald’s mere wishes…
Anyway, my point really has nothing to do with NAFTA or Donald Trump or politics or how we should navigate these issues. It merely serves as a globally recognizable example of something I struggle with daily – to not immediately react to a situation, to not get pulled into someone else’s chaos, to just breathe, stay in the present and respond in a caring and appropriate way.
` DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~
What’s the thing you struggle with? Can you think of a good Trump illustration for it? 😉
talktodiana 
Diana I think as an Aussie buy stander his days are numbered. He does not have the power he thought he would have and will self-destruct on his own.
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Well said, Diana. It’s always best to respond, rather than react. But … As for 45, he’s not a genius by any stretch, but he is a master of manipulation. He’s also a supreme narcissist and a pathological liar. Not to mention a pervert, a business cheat, etc. It’s hard not to react to these proven actions of his, especially when the fate of the planet is at stake. While some days our new reality in the U.S. does put the small things in perspective, there are many days when the frustration and hopelessness, disgust and anger color everything. That’s the rub. (By the way, his debts and connections to the Russian mob will come out sooner or later. Can’t happen soon enough.)
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45? What does that mean Jim? 45th president? And whatever he is or isn’t, he was voted in. Why? I’d love to know what happened. ❤
Diana xo
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No matter who is bothering me Diana, I always learn something more about me ha! Have a great day 💕😀
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I also agree that we are just too reactive to Trump.
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I know that I am too reactive to almost anyone! 😉
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“I’m seriously starting to wonder if he is a genius in the sense that he can so easily get us so wound up and I bet he’s having a nap, or reading the paper or doing laps in a pool, or worse working on something he doesn’t want the public to know about, while we are reacting to a non issue!”
Or the opposite, he tweets in the middle of the night. What for?
Dearie and I chat about Trump off and on….he thinks it’s not really lumber nor milk, Trump is trying to protect on the American side. Trump’s next move might be after Canada’s..water. California only got there brief rainfall after several years of drought.
I also believe it’s Canada’s Arctic sovereighnty that we keep on forgetting.
As for NAFTA, remember Canada didn’t even want NAFTA when former PM Mulroney was the Canadian signator. But true, NAFTA suddenly dismantled without proper transitional phase would be mean some business changes.
I’ll give a simple example NAFTA: past a certain dollar value, City of Calgary must go internationally for public art bids. I’m not kiddin’. So much for promoting and paying Canadian artists.
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I truly didn’t mean to make this post about politics Jean, but it seemed like a good illustration to explain what I struggle with lol! But since we’re on it, wouldn’t a true free trade agreement be way more free trade without tariffs and special clauses and the such. I hear this document is 200 pages! ❤
Diana xo
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This. This is exactly what I struggle with. The (Trump related or not) constant jump and frenzy to every word spoken by everyone. Everyone is so eager to jump on every utterance any more. What happened to us contemplating?
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Yes, whatever happened to that Colleen? ❤
Diana xo
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Beats me Diana, beats me.
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What one struggles with I believe should be between that one and God. For with Him and through Him all things are possible. The motivation to constantly try to overcome such struggles comes from this understanding.
As for President Trump: to judge a person, is fine to do, so long as one does not chose to judge another person’s soul. For we can only truly judge by one’s actions and not by what is within one’s heart. Only God knows that and therefore I leave that judgment to Him.
Little is know of President Trump, other than what the tabloids wish to report. But, those who have been recipients of his generosity, surprisingly not divulged by Mr. Trump, have come forth often to attest to it.
Mr. Trump before the presidency enjoyed driving himself around. On one drive his car had a flat tire. While getting out to begin repair a fellow driver stopped by and helped him replace the tire. Trump offered the man something for his kindness, but he refused. While the tire was being replaced Mr. Trump asked the fellow’s particulars: name and where he lived, worked, etc. A week later the gentleman found that his mortgage was paid in full.
On the return from a tour in the middle east a number of U.S. soldiers were stranded because the military hadn’t anticipated the correct number of soldiers returning home. All had hoped to be home with their families for Easter. Shortly after a commercial airline showed up to bring them to their destinations. As the plane taxied into position one soldier remarked: “What the heck is Trump Airline?” At his expense Mr. Trump made sure those soldiers made it home to be with their families for Easter.
The private Boeing 727 of real estate tycoon Donald Trump arrived from Los Angeles at LaGuardia Airport Tuesday morning, carrying aboard an Orthodox Jewish child with a rare and still undiagnosed breathing illness.
The child, Andrew Ten, age 3, arrived with his parents — accompanied by three nurses who attend to him around the clock — to try to seek medical help in the New York area.
Trump made his plane available for the special trip to New York after the boy’s parents, Judy and Harold Ten, called Trump and told him of their plight.
Commercial airlines refused to fly the child because he could not travel without an elaborate life-support system, which includes a portable oxygen tank, a suction machine, a breathing bag and an adrenaline syringe.
“Mr. Trump did not hesitate when we called him up. He said ‘yes, I’ll send my plane out,’” 29-year-old Harold Ten recalled shortly after he landed here Tuesday morning.
Asked why he thought Trump made his private jet available, Ten replied, “Because he is a good man. He has three children of his own and he knows what being a parent is all about.”
As one acts so one thinks. If seeing is believing, then one should place faith more in what another does than what another says.
-Alan
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Thanks for this very extensive comment Alan. Glad to know that Trump has done these things. I, for one, believe that there is some good in everyone. ❤
Diana xo
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It takes a fair-minded person to take that stance, Diana. I’ve known you to be that fair-minded person.
On another matter: A Great thank you to the 18K Edmonton Oiler Hockey fans who sang the Star Spangled Banner before the game when the singer’s microphone failed. True friends are those who don’t allow differences to jeopardize that friendship. Canada was there for the U.S. respectfully in this instance and on 911. We are there for you, Canada, as well. Oh, Canada!!
-Alan
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We do have one of the friendliest borders in the world Alan and I hope we always will! ❤
Diana xo
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Excellent piece!!! Thank you.
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Thanks Abe. ❤
Diana xo
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Thanks for the masterpiece of this post, Diana! I struggle with people who have severe personality disorders. I think Trump is a good illustration of that.
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Oh Ann haha! Thanks for my Sunday chuckle! ❤
Diana xo
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