PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

You are wasting your time when you see the person you are speaking to go into MEGO (as in MY EYES GLAZE OVER) and tune you out.

You are wasting your time when you muster up all of your courage and call someone you are interested in and they have actually forgotten your name; don’t remember meeting you; definitely mistake you for someone else and generally show that they are not your ‘Missed Connection’ and never will be.

You are wasting your time when not 125 words, but hundreds and maybe thousands more, show you that the person you are trying to talk to, does not and isn’t likely to ever understand a word you are saying.

Hang up as soon as you can and save your breath when the person on the other end is obviously a wrong number…or should have been…and removed themselves from your phone (and your life) long ago.

Discuss leaving a situation while you are still civil to someone (and they to you) when it is obvious that it will never going to work out between you. Prolonging the agony until it gets sordid, for one or both of you, isn’t doing anyone any favours. Never mind offering to ‘be friends’, as you usually do, because that’s not likely either.

I have always said, NEVER SLEEP WITH ANYONE CRAZIER THAN YOURSELF. I mean it. When you realize that even another meeting would be too much and suddenly wonder if speed dating makes more sense, you recognize that you will never get the time you have used up back again.  

  

Make the best of some situations because your friends don’t ask that much back and (unfortunately) this is one time they have. Express your genuine and heartfelt gratitude to God that you are not married (or related) to these people and can go to your own home eventually.

  

This being said, there are times when you need to do something different, go somewhere new, see new people and places and things outside your comfort zone. You may have a DESTINY and it may just be around a new corner.