you are what you eat

It's occured to me that too much of any one thing is bad for me. Which has caused me to not listen to the news lately, (and I am a news junkie.) I found myself feeling hopeless and angry every time I read about some new thing our President was saying or doing. I was becoming obsessed with the state of our country. I find our President the biggest self serving, out of touch, lying jackass there is. But the more informed I became, the worst I felt. So, I have tuned out for awhile.
I find the same to be true about the people I put myself around. If I am around someone who is always angry, bitching about the human race in general, and basically just spewing venom, I start to take on that attitude. While, I don't want to live in a fairy tale, I also don't want to belong to the venom spewing crowd.
I needed to refocus my thoughts, so I have spent the last 4 days working around my house trying to make it look nice and have spent some time with kids. Other people's and my own. Sometimes kids get it right, whether they are 4 or 20. I learned something from both of them these past few days. Mostly I learned that there is alot of good in the world when you put yourself around it. Seeing the world through the eyes of a 4 yr old can certainly put anyone in a positive spirit and listening to the logic of a 2o yr old can whip some perpespective into your life.
I am still saving my war protesting sign for the next march, and don't think I'm cured yet of cussing out a driver or two, but for me, It's about knowing when too much of something is becoming bad for me. Sometimes, I have to redirect myself.
If you eat asparagus you pee green. If you don't like to pee green, you don't eat the asparagus. It's that simple.
jb