DAY 9, MARCH 9, 2024, HAPPY NATIONAL GET OVER IT DAY!
Good Morning, Everyone,
It’s Happy National Get Over It Day, and it is a day that we must implement worldwide. However, I’m limiting this day to offenses committed against us regardless of whether they deal with our families, friends, or work situations at a county, state, or national level. It is hard for us to get over such offenses, and this day encourages us to get over it and move on. But that is easier said than done.
Just look at what happened in the 2020 Presidential election. It is a pity that we’re still heatedly discussing the past election as if it happened yesterday. Sometimes, I want to shout that we are dealing with 2024, and the 2020 election is over. Whatever happened to the loser conceding and stepping aside or waiting until the next election if they are dissatisfied with the results? The USA will go into history for being a country that argued and fought over the twenty-twenty election until infinity. We might still be fighting over the 2020 election in 2028 or 2032 instead of getting over it. Who knows?
Unfortunately, not getting over it is permeating our entire lives. Sportsmen don’t like to concede when they have lost a title. Here in Germany, at some National Soccer Cup games, sportlers have even refused to wear the medal when they place second in a tournament. Now, that is sad. Instead of getting over it, they downplay the other team’s win, missing a great life lesson.
National Getting Over It Day should also be implemented among our families and friends. How often do we bury an insult in our hearts because somebody injured us, and we carry a grudge instead of getting over it? I suspect that while holding that in our hearts, the person who committed the offense has forgotten about it.
Thus, let’s make the National Getting Over It Day an everyday thing. Let us forgive and move on, no matter how difficult it is. As a Sly and the Family Stone said in their famous hit:
Sometimes, I’m right, and I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then
Makes no difference what group I’m in
I am everyday people, yeah, yeah!
Shalom shalom,
Pat Garcia
Lyrics Rights to Everyday People
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Sylvester Stewart
Everyday People lyrics © Mijac Music
Hi, Pat!
I’m still catching up after my weekend away. Forgiveness is powerful medicine for the one who forgives. It doesn’t excuse what caused the hurt, but it does rob it of its power over you.
Getting over it is vital if one wants to enjoy a fulfilling, joyful life. Since nations are comprised of individuals, if each person would just get over it, we might see healing spread.
I’m so glad you brought this us, and I too, am singing “Everyday People.”
Blessings,
Patty
I miss the days when compromise was the norm in our government. Unfortunately, the extremists, though in the minority, have overtaken our country and are driving it into division and chaos. It’s very sad.
Yvette M Calleiro 🙂
http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com
Hi, Yvette,
Thank you for stopping by. Unfortunately, people are afraid and many don’t understand what is going on. It is sad to see what is taking place.
Have a lovely day.
Shalom shalom
Vietnam Vets fall into that category as many are still angry over the way they were welcomed home after serving in the war, and for Jane Fonda’s stunt when visiting North Vietnam. Both of these will top the anger list until the last one of us dies.
Hello, JP,
I can understand the Vietnam Vets. Yet, I hope one day they can let that go and live on.
Thank you for your coming by.
Shalom shalom
Thank you so much for the pingback.
Shalom shalom
Hi, I agree that our nation should get over the past and, for once, think ahead. We’re always stuck in making amends for our past and forgetting about the present and future.
Hello, Susanne,
Thank you for stopping by.
So true. We live in the past and forget that we can’t change the past but if we live in the present, we can change our future.
Shalom shalom
Pat, you are so right about getting over the presidential elections. Those people that didn’t have concocted lies that Joe Biden didn’t win the election. If we don’t stop the nonsense and draw the line somewhere in the sand, we will never move forward as a country united. We will inch closer and closer to a dictatorship. We will lose our democracy.
I appreciate that you reminded us where our priorities should be. Definitely not dwelling on the past.
My Dear Shirley,
Unification of a land needs more than laws to follow to stop the nonsense. We need real truth and hearts. And I hope that we turn our hearts.
Thank you so much for stopping by.
Shalom shalom
Pat, I almost didn’t read this one. I’m so glad I did. I didn’t even know there was such a day, but as you say, every person in every nation needs celebrate this. People here are still upset over the Taylor Swift/Kanye West debacle in 2009. Scottie Pippin is still mad about Michael Jordan being called the GOAT. Get over it!!!
Hello My dear Linda,
I was so surprised when I visit the states last year at the amount of animosity in the USA. It is heart breaking. I hope people start getting over their pain.
Thank you for stopping by.
Shalom shalom
Hi Pat–I am so with you! I love that you quoted the Sly and the Family Stone song! Different Strokes for different folks, and so on, and so on…WE GOTTA LIVE TOGETHER!
I often find that song coming around in my brain (the cliche for when a song gets caught in your head is an “ear worm”) when I read news reports about people who judge one another based on their appearance (e.g., skin color, gender, height, weight, etc.). As someone who, as a toddler, picked out a Black baby doll from all of the dolls available in the toy store, I don’t see why people in my own family found my choice to be incredible. It was just a baby doll back in 1950. I had her until probably 1952 or 1953. I told her all my secrets. I didn’t care what color her skin was, but there certainly were some of my relatives–some from Boston, some from the south–who had an opinion. I wouldn’t tell THEM my secrets, no siree! I trusted my Black baby doll a lot more than I trusted them!
As Lily Tomlin used to say on “Laugh In”–“And that’s the truth!”
Hello, My Dear Wanda,
We call that song in German “ein Ohrwurm”.
You were very bold when you were a child as you are now. I was too.
Thank you for being who you are.
Shalom shalom
And now, Pat, for the rest of the day, I’ll be singing “Every Day People!”
Super! Sing!! I sometimes hum that song as I write.
Thank you, Karen, for dropping by.
Shalom shalom
Hi Pat, I hear what you’re saying about the political situation in the U.S. it is not good over here and we too have a general election on the way for later this year.
Hi My Dear Joy,
That’s so true and that’s one of my points. We will know at the end of this year just how the world will look.
Thank you so much for coming by.
Shalom shalom