Tell Your Stories.

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better." - Anne Lamott

Favorite quote there...and I'll tell ya why.

I personally feel like if you are going to be a shit person your whole life, you shouldn't be able to throw a pity party when your years and years of bad decisions finally catch up with you. And, if you do decide to throw yourself that pity party, I should be allowed to crash it.

I have sympathy for a lot of things, like sick babies & hungry puppies, but I don't have sympathy for stupid. Something that I do have is a memory like a steel trap; once something is in my head, it's stuck. You do something shitty to me, or let me see you do something shitty to someone else, I'm gonna remember. I'm gonna keep it tucked away in my big brain, in an arsenal of keepsakes, readily available to bust your balls as soon as I feel it's necessary.

If you do what you do, all the time, with no respect or regard for anyone else at all, completely selfish and arrogant, I should be able to warn people when you attempt to take advantage of their honest compassion. If you sit around and tell a sob story to get people to feel sorry for you when you don't deserve it, I should be able to combat your story if you don't tell it right. If the correct story was one that you didn't want known, maybe you should learn to behave better. I don't feel like anyone is required to feel sorry for you, when a situation you've created bites you in the ass.

As if you couldn't tell, I'm grumpy today. It seems like the good folks always end up with the shit end of the deal and the bad ones get everything handed to them. Since that's the way of the world, if you're a shit person and I have the appropriate ammunition, I'm going to do what I can to make sure you feel a little shitty every once in a while. If holding you accountable for your actions makes me a bitch, then so be it. What holding you accountable for your actions won't do is make me a fool, and I'm down with that.