Random thoughts

So as I was sitting here eating some 'gourmet' snack mix, I kept trying to pick out the almonds because the rest of it isn't really to my taste. I was shaking the can, rolling it, digging through all the rest, just trying to find those elusive almonds. And you know they never put enough of them in because that's what people really want.

Then I started think about how I do that with other things in life. Dating, for instance. I've been told that I'm too picky and that must be why I'm still not married. I am picky, and who says that's a bad thing? Maybe if people were a little more discriminating in the people they married there wouldn't be quite so much divorce. And maybe I want to take my time finding the right person, digging through all the others and sifting out the good ones from the bad ones until I find what I'm looking for. That can't be all bad. I just have to make sure I hold onto the one I want when I find him.

I'm also picky in what I watch and read and listen to. That's more of a recent habit, sifting through all the filth out there. I'm sure anyone who's spend any amount of time on the Internet has run across things they'd really rather not have seen. There's so much garbage out in the world nowadays, and it's so hard to keep it from sullying you. I can say from personal experience that there are things I've seen and heard that are now seared onto my brain and I will never be rid of them, no matter how much I'd like to be. It's just not worth it. So I'm being careful to pick through all the bad stuff until I get to the good.

There are so many other areas of my life where, yes, I am picky. But is it really a bad thing? I don't think so. As long as I remember that, although I personally am not partial to the peanuts, maybe someone else is. And that's not a bad thing either.