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Such Great Plans... For The Perfect Crime & Life Changers

Today's blogs....

30 Day Blogging Challenge

Serial Prompt: Plot the perfect crime. Part two of this will continue tomorrow...with a slight twist.

Blog City – Day 210

Prompt:"I had such great plans..."

Such great plans, indeed. I expected I could manage it and pull off the perfect crime. No one would ever suspect a little old lady.
My plans, I kept in my head, for fear of prying eyes and waggling tongues. In my head, my plans were only thoughts. Nothing acted upon, nothing to point back to me. But I had done this all too long and it was time; time to take my revenge and set the record straight. Too many years I had sat back and let Haddie Parker take the credit for my hard work. Watched her rise and fill her pockets with more money than she could handle, but now... now was time to set things in motion. Alert the proper authorities and watch her web spin in and confine her, wrap her within its bounds. Choking her in her own lies and watching her house of cards topple down around her.

The last straw was when I had called her up to ask for her help and she had laughed at me like I was a lunatic. Well, she would pay for that humiliation. All her friends had laughed... called me an old coot and a crazy loon when I had seen them later at the Centre.
I would do all that I planned and no one would suspect me.

Welcome To My Reality – Week Forty – One

5. What one thing changed your life? It can be a person, a book, a song...anything at all that changed your life in some way.

I think the positivity of Oprah opened me up to the possibilities. Her show shone a light into my life and awakened that sense within myself... a part that was a small seed that needed tending to come into fruition.

I questioned my faith or what little of it I had. After my father's death when I was twelve, I was mad at God. In my anger I tried to claim I was an atheist. But now I know, to be angry at God means I believe... but I was lost. Oprah's show opened me to the possibilities of spirituality that were not tied to religion and church. My eyes were opened to the idea that spirituality can move beyond the church and organized religion. Practicing gratitude. Being awakened to the beauty of the world. Spirituality became more that dogma and closeted religion. It became a development of a relationship with God over and above the church. I came to believe God is Love and that what happened with my father was not his doing. In developing that relationship I came to accept the spiritual part of my life. I have been on that path ever sense.

6. Do you or have you considered volunteering? Where? Why/why not?

Volunteering was how I got started with special education. It helped get me experience and it also let the powers that be, know who I was and what I was capable of when it came time to hire. I loved working with the students and getting to know them. Not only did I learn how to work with a variety of etiologies (different kinds of special needs) I am developed rapport with the students. I found I learned as much from each of them as they may have learned from me - maybe more so.

I learned to appreciate what abilities I do have and be amazed at how persistent and wonderful these students really are in term of what they can accomplish.

7. Do you believe in lucky, destiny, karma? Why/why not?

Destiny was a blog topic discussed only last week. I do believe in Destiny. I believe a Higher Power guides us forth on a path only He knows. I do not know the full course... my purpose is to develop my talents and gifts and use them to the betterment of the world around me. In following my purpose, I am led forward along the path to my destiny.

Karma, I also believe in... it is not my job to judge or take revenge on someone who has wronged me. I try to let it go and let God handle it. In that way, I see, if they don't reform, Karma will take their piece of the wrong-doer. It let's me feel better at letting things go.

Luck is an odd thing. One deems oneself lucky if things are going well. Unlucky if they are not. But when studying psychology in university, luck often was perceived differently in men and women. Men were more inclined to claim hard work and achievement for things going well, and say they were unlucky if things went poorly. Women, on the other hand, tended to take the blame when things were going poorly and claim they were lucky when things worked out for the better. Now this was on studies done over 20 years ago. Is is still this way? What do you'all think?