MYOB

Mind Your Own Business! I cannot tell you how many times I heard this as a child. I was a curious kid and wanted to know everything about everything. But it was a valuable lesson then and the value only increased as I got older.

MYOB still applies to not being nosy and not butting into things that don’t concern you, but the meaning has evolved for me as I have matured. Now, I feel like it is something that this crazy world could use a lot more of - “Get yourself right before you worry about other people.”

This is not a new lesson: “He who is without sin, cast the first stone.” This culture of “I’m offended for you,” cancelling everything is sight, and shouting down everything I don’t agree with like a 2 year old is exhausting. It must be nice to walk around with an absolute conviction that you are 100% right about every opinion you hold, so much so that you want to yell it from the roof tops - well, type it from your keyboard more like it. I’m out here just trying to do the best I can with whatever life throws at me today, and other folks got so much time on their hands that they can be all up in the business of people they don’t even know! That just amazes me!

On a more personal level, I try to apply MYOB whenever I start to feel myself getting judgmental of those close to me. I don’t like all the choices that my husband, my daughter, my mother, my sister, my niece makes, but guess what…#1 They’re not my choices and #2 It’s not like I make the best choices all the time either. I can’t understand why he did this or she said that! Well, guess what. I can’t understand why I put off taking a shower as long as possible even though I love a shower. We are WEIRD! Everyone is weird! We are just all weird in our own unique and special ways.

Let others be weird. You don’t get to understand everything everyone else does or says or thinks or chooses. Let yourself be weird. Work on understanding (and accepting) your actions, your words, your opinions and your choices. MYOB!