STOP!!!

Most of us have heard this phrase, but you may not know that it came from a musical that opened in England in 1961 and on Broadway in 1962. Later it became a movie (1966) and had a Broadway revival in 1978.

Want more information? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_World_%E2%80%93_I_Want_to_Get_Off.

Lately, that phrase has been screaming throughout my mind over and over. I want to yell at everybody to

  Just Stop it!!!

"...during this difficult time, this challenging time, this trying time..." is in almost every e-mail crossing my computer. I've been coping just fine until you'all keep reminding me it's awful

Here, let me help you. Use up all the synonyms below and be done with it. It is what it is; so stop the pity parties, and the woe is me outlook. 

I'm looking for positive folks to be hearing from.They're out there. 

One place that made me smile yesterday- and we all still need smiles, right? I went to Pinterest and looked at all the creative ideas for getting our children back to school: book boats, wings, special hats, hula hoop spaces, special innovative markings for social distancing and paw stations with sanitizers. 

We need to help our schools and places of employment do things in new ways; not give into the doom and gloom of "we can't-s." 

We need to admit that we've done things wrong... allowed them to be our normal. For example, most schools have been sharing supplies like crayons and pencils vs each child having their own. Sharing facial tissue? In business we went from offices to cubbies and open workspaces. Let it siffice that there are alternative ways of doing things. 

Getting off this planet isn't the answer, but I'd like to see more positive approaches and sharing of ideas. Other countries have been doing this longer than the USA. What works is a better question. And how can I adapt the good ideas to fit my/our situation.

Getting off my soapbox for now...

Connie

Need synonyms for hard to handle? Here's a list of similar words from our thesaurus that you can use instead. Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style flyaway   awkward   difficult   uncontrollable   unmanageable   unruly stubborn unreasonable   obstinate   disobliging   trying   perverse unaccommodating   intractable   obstructive   unpredictable   prickly troublesome   refractory   irritable   thrawn   touchy   tiresome   contrary obdurate   froward   chippy   stroppy   bloody-minded   balky