• Jodythinks

    Your words are important

    Have you ever felt like your words were just drifting into the wind, with no one bothering to listen or pay attention? I’ve felt that. That sometimes you just don’t count, and your opinion, last on the list of priorities. I could blame being the middle child, or the quiet friend, all the psychological markers that come with the disorders connected with narcissism.   Or I can just admit that everyone wants to be heard at one point or another. Even if it’s just by one thoughtful ear, or one that doesn’t understand at all. (Reason #1 I talk to our rabbits) We all want to feel like our voices are…

  • Jodythinks

    Today’s borrowed thought

    I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. -Douglas Adams   It is a thread you have heard me pull at before, but sometimes I think I need a reminder. I have a tendency to fixate on things, and it bothers me when a path isn’t followed. So much so that I can’t even watch those kinds of movies where the protagonist throws away the successful career and goes down the rabbit hole to discover himself. It’s just not in me to explore the unstable and unsure. I have a track (or at least  an idea…

  • Cheese,  Jodythinks,  Love/Life,  Thanks

    Pat yourself in the back today

    Hello, everyone who’s going through a quarter life, midlife, single life, married life, crisis.   It’s me, Jody. I have been there, and I’m still there. Lost, sometimes dissatisfied, always wanting more. I recently watched the movie The Pursuit of Happyness and found myself struck by the words in the movie, “preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness”. It left me asking, will we always be in the pursuit of happiness? Or are some people perfectly happy where they are? I ask, because, while I am happy, I am always on the lookout for the next big thing, the next step. Where do we take life when…