People are People

I decided to start my own blog with encouragement from my daughter's lifelong best friend, Josh and my sister from another mister, Tammie. I have always read OF other blog's--and never actually followed one. I began reading Josh's, enjoyed it, LEARNED from it, and thought I should do that....so, here I am. I have been searching my mind for the subject of this first entry...funny how things tend to fall in your lap.

My maternal grand-mother died this morning. So what. WOW. That sounded harsh.

I have always tried NOT to judge people. My own life experiences have led me to understand MOST people have a reason for being the way they are...Circumstances can shape a person as much, or more than, genetics. Knowing this, you would think I would have more compassion towards the woman who gave birth to my mother. I don't. She was a bitter and hate-filled person until the day she died and I can't understand how  you go through 80 years of life living with this cancer inside of you.  My mother and her siblings were victims of this "cancer" ALL their lives. And yet, at the end, they were all there. All with demons of their own. And they received from their mother exactly what they should have expected. Nothing.