There will always be a Sarah Angie......

Growing up a girl picked on me all the time. Her name was Sarah Angie and she invaded my life from 1st grade through highschool. This girl was so mean just looking at her if you weren't her friend made you cry. She was the verbal abuse champion of the world.

My parents told me, "honey, we understand and feel your pain and will help you in whatever way possible, however know that as you grow older you will always have someone in your life that is a thorn in your side." As I grew up I realized the wisdom of these words.

Today at 24 I realize that the thorns will never go away and to learn to live with them has grown to be a challenge. How do you learn to handle a thorn. If you handle a rose carefully thorns and all you can avoid being cut. In reality if you try to handle a thorny person carefully you can get cut and burned at the same time. If you handle them sternly they only dig deeper.

The question I'm to ponder is the world supposed to accept the reality that thorns will be thorns and you will be cut no matter what? This doesn't seem fair, there should be a way to avoid confrontation?

So today I look at my life and see the Sarah Angie's coming out of the wood work and wonder will I have have my rose with out the thorns.