THE POWER VS. NEGATIVITY

Hi peoples, this is Linda, Robert's sidekick.

This is not like any of the blogs which Rob has written so far and I know this is a 'bit of everything' blog, so I'm going to write a little of something.

Firstly, I read The Power by Rhonda Byrne over a year ago, and it's almost become my bible.  Whenever I feel down, unsure, a little fed up, I just open a random page and I read it, somehow it knows what emotion I'm experiencing.

I haven't picked it up this evening yet because for months now life has been quite nice and running AOK - until my next door neighbour's cat came meowing at the door at 11:30pm this evening.  Her owner was once a very good friend of mine (that's when she wanted to know everything about what was going on in my life of course), but, because of her negativity, I backed away from her or she backed away from me, because of my positivity.  So, I phoned her as I sometimes do to let her know that her cat wanted her supper, when my neighbour shouted down the phone at me how p*****d off with me she was and that her cat is always in on time at 12 midnight and don't ever disturb her again, and also her husband is poorly and she is fed up, then she said I will open the door for her.  She then slammed down the phone.  Since she hadn't let me explain, I waited at my door for her to open hers so I could apologise, when I got a mouth full of abuse....she was just ranting on, I hadn't woken her up or anything and I have called her before sometimes at 2:am because her cat has been meowing to get home and in the past she has thanked me.  In fact on many an occasion, she has actually phoned me to ask if the cat is with me!  She carried on ranting on when I very rudely cut her off mid-sentence by saying "don't worry I won't ever call you again, no matter what the reason", because she was mid-sentence she hadn't caught what I said and asked me to repeat myself, so I did whereby she then proceeded to tell me to "make sure I didn't." 

Why is it so difficult to help some people and why are they so negative?  I didn't want her cat to be left out in the cold and obviously the cat is wise enough to know that if she meows to me then I will phone her mum and her mum will let her in....if you are reading this Rinky Tinky (that's the cat), I'm sorry pussy cat but I will have to leave you out whether it's freezing, raining, snowing, blowing a gale or an earthquake hits. I am very sorry.

The moral of the story really is to be nice to everyone and everything, even though it was rude to cut her off mid-sentence, because she doesn't know if she might ever need me, and I don't know if I will ever need her!