First Door on the Left

My New Years resolution is to not to magically change and be someone else, but to keep giving myself the respect I’ve finally realized I deserve.

Shel wrote that. I think it’s beautiful. His entire post today was amazing. You should go read it. Such wisdom for one so young!

I would only change one word. I would change the word keep to the word start.

If I have a job I hate, it is up to me to realize that I deserve a better job, and then go out and find it. If there are things in my life that make me sad, it is up to me to purge those things from my life. If there are changes to be made, it is up to me to make them. I just have to start respecting myself enough to do these things.

Thanks, Shel. We’ll see how it goes.

Thanks also to everybody who left congratulatory comments on the post in which I mentioned that the s/o and I have achieved 27 years together. I don’t want to leave anybody with the impression that it has all been pure bliss. We’ve gone over quite a number of rough stretches in the road. Somehow we always came out of the rough stretches together. I cannot imagine having spent, or spending the rest of, my life with anybody else.

The government says we are just “two men who live together” and our relationship has no basis in legality. That has never bothered us. We know who and what we are, and if the government is too stupid and bigoted to recognize it, then pity the government.