A couple of weeks ago, I did a blog post on reasons to BE a bear. The reasons were pretty good, but I still am glad I’m NOT a bear because:
- Don’t have to eat my friends (probably wouldn’t have friends, actually)
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I like my fish cooked.
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Prefer my honey without bugs…
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While the free “nap” might be okay, getting darted and tagged regularly would bite.
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Rather be IN the vehicle instead of getting slammed into by the vehicle.
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Bears don’t have internet.
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While I wouldn’t mind a nice long, uninterrupted sleep, I’d rather not sleep through winter. If I had to sleep through something it would be August. (I haven’t given up on August completely. Hoping for a better August up north, one minus the heat and humidity—though I always get older in August. Can’t dodge that.)
There are probably more good reasons to be glad I’m not a bear, but my thoughts sort of flowed into times when I’m a bear even when I’m not actually a bear. (That’s how my brain, um, rolls? Twitches? Spews out ideas?)
My husband could probably make the case of me being bearish on occasion. So I thought I’d wrap up this post (and start a new month of blogging!) by sharing a few tips (hopes?) on how not to be a bear:
- Be grateful
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Be forgiving
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Give yourself a timeout when you can’t be grateful or forgiving
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Remind yourself that no one is perfect – not even you – and that’s okay.
I know I’m grateful for the people in my life who are willing to forgive me for not being perfect—and letting me be a bear now and again. So I try to remember to return the favor. And I’m grateful to HAVE people in my life.
If I was a bear, I wouldn’t. 🙂
Okay, dear readers, have you been a bear recently? Are you glad you aren’t a bear—for real or in crabbiness? Is it politically incorrect to ascribe crabbiness to bears? (If so, then I’m glad bears aren’t on online because they’d probably try to eat me.)
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P.S. I don’t actually have bears in my books, though I sometimes have cranky people (actually, all my characters get cranky on occasion and I can’t really blame them. I put them through a lot.) Ernest might be the character who got hosed the most. I don’t know. They can’t vote. But he does go through a lot in Specters in the Storm.
