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Anne Thompson, Author, born in Orange County California in 1967 and raised in magical Flowering Dogwood, Show-Me- Mid-Western state of Missouri. Anne received her education from the University of Central Missouri in English Education, Creative Writing and Communication. She is married with three grown children and four Grandchildren. Anne is a self-published Author of the Five-Star Rated thriller “VISIONS” available at Amazon.com. http://tinyurl.com/bu66w8h Anne used to be an aspiring writer until a traumatic event exploded her life into a million pieces. Her goals were to bring you articles that would, take you away for a minute, shock you, make you laugh, make you go “Oh Yeah, I get that!” and to inspire. Her life used to be an adventure every day. Her life has changed and with those changes her life became a very bumpy ride. She wanted you to come along because her adventures were sure to guarantee many surprises. But, lives change. You are still welcome to come inside her mind…only if you dare.

Friday, August 24, 2012

The Way of the World Today

Well it has come to the week end at last and I hope all of you have a wonderful love filled weekend. I know I will because the love of my life will be home and oh, how I will finally sleep.
Try to love the best you can. Try to understand. Your love is your friend in a way that no one else can be. Listen to your heart about what you know about the person that you love, not to others who do not understand. Stand by the one you love under all circumstances regardless of things others may say. You know the person that you love and that love is to be wrapped around that person in a way as to say “I love this person so BACK OFF!”
Love is a magic place in which all other things in life are just a means to find that love.
Love is the answer for all because when there is love, it’s you and the person that you love standing together to face the world together. Just the two of you and with that love you are encouraged and strong and the world can be one great big playground and life can turn out to be a beautiful love story……if you stick together and know that people will come and go out of your life but the person you love will be there for a lifetime. Who are you going to listen to?

She's the keeper of his heart
the only one with a key
And she's a dreamer
in his eyes
A dreamer with a foolish pride

He is a believer in anything she dreams
He would give everything
to keep her from slipping away
So he holds his lady in his arms
and loves her so tenderly
And with a whisper he gently pleads
Oh baby, forever love me.
Then he holds her in the night
and their fire explodes inside
They ride the night
so faithfully
And he speak
these words she'll hear forever
With this ring
I thee wed
and forever my love
I will truly give
with my heart
and with my soul
forever my love
will truly be
if you will
forever love me.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Way of the World Today


SO,  here I am on another beautiful day, sitting on my deck with the dog and the birds and the tree’s, peace and tranquility, looking out into the world to see what I see. What I see is life that lives just because, It Is. All of Mother Nature just is and it just lives. I would like to be more like that but life forces us to be so many things that it can be so confusing. I think I need a new dictionary because things just don’t mean what they used to, ya know?

It’s like these kids that I have been talking about, this girlfriend and boyfriend. At the very moments that they were together and loving each other, anyone would bet that these kids were really, madly, in love. They had been what I really thought was love for four years. It was in their eyes and in their actions and how they did everything they could for each other. It was the way they laughed with each other and took on life together. The way he always rubbed her shoulders when they were just hanging out around the kitchen. They loved honestly, I thought. It seemed like such a fairy tale because you could see it in their eyes but I was naïve and realized those were just feelings within moments that those feelings were shared. It seems to me that every time they reached out to help other people, those people would tear them apart, every single time! This time it only took a pretty, adorable, sweet little sixteen year old girl who even took my heart away, to get into the girlfriends head and make her feel and think things about the boyfriend that were not real and she fell for it and so, instead of believing in the boyfriends character, she believed the everything that was said about him and they broke up, yet again for the fourth and last time.

It is so sad, the reason it is so sad for me is because these are young adults that were kids together and both facing life with difficult disabilities that made life hard enough, then to lose each other.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Way of the World Today


                                                     The Way of the World Today
 
So, this is the way of the world today. Today, continuing on from yesterday, my friend had to get the police involved because his little girlfriend had been brainwashed into believing that my friend has now become evil, overnight and decided to spend her morning driving by his house and trying to provoke a fight so, the police were called in and the situation was handled very well.

So, the sixteen year old girl did a number on my friend and his girlfriend and now they have broken up. It is so sad. They were such a great couple.

So what I learned today is that anyone, and I mean anyone can say “I love you” one day and not mean it the next because of other’s people getting involved and turning people against each other. It’s almost like people thrive on drama that is hurtful and painful. What I learned is that people need to say, “I love you right now”, instead of for life because you never know what is going to happen from one day to the next. Another friend of mine told me that although her husband is a bad man, she would rather give her love to him than to her own mother. And with life being this way in so many situations, exactly what does “I love you” mean anymore?
As you can tell from my posts, I am a writer that never leaves her home. Absolutely! I have been out in the world and as of two years ago, I said never again. I have been working all of my life and been fired, made to cry everyday till I quit, demoted till I quit, fired because of made up stories and humiliated. I went back to school at forty and developed a disease that made it hard for me to see and then I was raped. Now, I do what I can from home because I am not going out there again! The only way that I would ever leave this house again is if my husband told me we were moving to Nanaimo, British Columbia, the most beautiful place I have ever been in my life.

I write, that is what I do and I think that this blog is going to have a new name that will be called, “The Way of the World Today” and it will be based on the behaviors of society and what people are doing to each other out there so that maybe we can all stop and check ourselves and see exactly what we are doing to each other as we try to make it through this life together.

Thank you and this is me signing out for The Way of the World Today.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

The Way of the World


The Way of the World

 So I stepped out into the world today, big mistake. Today I had to leave the comfort of my home to go pick up someone I know on an early morning from the job he had driven to. Here it comes, the drama.

Today he was supposed to babysit for this family made up of a mom and three kids that just moved into town, in fact, this guy I know had helped them move for his girlfriend, need I say this again? For the girlfriend. Him and his girlfriend helped this family move into town alright. They found them a place to rent, they babysat and toted the little two year old around and ran here and ran there running errands, unloading boxes, cleaning and the like. The oldest is a girl of sixteen years of age and already has the responsibilities of an adult parent with her nine year old sister and her two year old little brother. At first sight, I thought She was a sweet girl.

But, today when my friend arrived to babysit this little two year old so the mom could go to work and the sixteen year old and nine year old could go to school the sixteen year old girl proceeded to yell and scream at him and call him everything in the book. Why? Well, his pickup broke down and the mom in this situation was letting him use one of their vehicles for helping her with her kids. That was working until my friend faced this unruly sixteen year old girl telling him that the vehicle he was using was hers and that it had been her birthday present and she wanted her keys and for him to leave and to get out! 

That was it! He dropped her keys and he left. Walked right out and started heading down a long stretch of dirt road to call me to come get him. I even tried to talk to the sixteen year old but she wanted nothing to do with me.

So, here I sit back in my little room after having left for a dramatic showing of life. My friend is so upset. His girlfriend who he was doing this all for was Two-Hundred miles away at a very serious Dr.’s appointment and he was so worried about her and he was trying to explain things over the phone to the “mom” in this situation and he knew that his hands were tied. The sixteen year old stayed home to take care of the two year old and proceeded to text the “girlfiend” all the rest of that day filling her head full of lies about my friend and trying to tear my friend and his girlfriend apart. It was awful. My son refused to babysit again because of the sixteen year old and for a Twenty-One year old man, babysitting a two year old when the sixteen year old girl is in the house trying to get ready for school is a set-up waiting to happen for the Twenty-One year old boy and that was no place for him to be. The situation was all in good intentions but I think things are about to get worse. This sixteen year old girl and her little family, I think, have just taken my friend and his girlfriend on a ride and it may not be over yet.

There was also a situation with the borrowed vehicle that was nothing but an incident involving my friend when he tried to back out the day before and almost hit an installation van. He didn’t but the sixteen year old sure decided that because of that and that my friend raised his voice to her when she yelled at him and that automatically made her go into a defensive mode because she knew she over stepped big time and wasn’t sure what he was going to do because she does not know him. She used those two things to decide that my friend was a bad guy and proceeded to treat him as such and to make everyone in her path believe this too.

I think I know why. You see, this guy is Twenty-One years old and has Autism. Most people do not know that he has this. It’s something that has so very little effect on him that no one knows until he yells. Then he gets loud.  Most of the time he knows how to control it but, he also has a very hard time understanding other peoples expressions and whether they are angry or kidding around. This man is a wonderful man. He is so kind and understanding. He is so sweet and has never been rude in his life. His manners are impeccable and he just loves everyone.

I think that knowledge may have been involved with the sixteen year old girl’s feelings towards him.

The lesson learned here is that in the world, the way it is today, so many people have been so hurt by one another that judgment gets passed before anyone even knows each other. Life has made it that way. People have to make snap decisions on each other because there are  so many bad people out there that safety does not allow time to get to know someone before you judge because if the person is bad and they get one second into your life then, you could lose everything, even your life.

I see no answer to this other than to except it for something that can’t be changed. All the people are hurting each other so much that no one can be anything for anyone else because of fear, and rightful fear.

This is the way of the world today.