So, does this make me pretentious....

Sorry, I just could not resist=) tehe.

I stole this off of Summer Wind's post, but it is exactly how I feel today.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people will accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It never was between you and them anyway.

-Mother Teresa

Thank everyone for your sweet tweets, comments, and emails. And yes, now you can put a face with a "pen" name at least. Yesterday put a lot of things in perspective for me. It made me see things and certain people in my life in a different light. But there will be no hate post, lord knows, that hateful blogger that was posting things that bashed bloggers yesterday was enough meanness to circulate our little blogger world. Today, I look at my glass as half full. I realize that yesterday helped me grow as a person. I realized that even though I've never met some of you IRL, that you are some of the best friends a girl could ask for, and that our community is truly not understood unless you are a part of it and participate versus lurking in the shadows. I, too, used to be a lurker you know. I will not apologize for anything I say on here unless it is truly warranted. This is my blog, and these are my musings. If you choose to misinterpret them, read too much into them, or let your own insecurities cloud your judgment to believe things are always directed at you, then that is your choice. I do not make anyone read my blog. It's a choice that you make, not me. In the words of Mrs. Petunia whom I adore=) "Be nice or leave."  There was too much hurt in my own personal life yesterday along with the mean blogger who put hurt into the lives of my blog friends to have the energy to write a hate post. The world we live in is full of enough of that without me adding to it......

And my new motto for life is, "Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you."~Elsie de Wolfe