Hill to Die Upon

I have always been a passionate person, and I take social issues from around the world and right here at home, fairly seriously.

The last 4 or so years, my project was in helping military families, specifically those that do not have children. I sat on the Board of Directors for the Edmonton Garrison Military Family Resource Centre for 3 years, and I stuck my noise in the Unit Family Cell business for about a year too. I wanted desperately to change things to make it easier for the families without kids...to empower them, so they wouldn't have to rely on the big machine of the military. At the end of my last relationship, I had to step down and completely away from all of that. The Board has a by-law that states you have to be a military spouse of some sort in order to serve them. Rightfully so, I mean I wouldn't want someone from the general public trying to tell a deployed spouse that there isn't a need to worry. Crazy talk!

This week I received an email from a close friend, letting me know that I am not really welcome to stay at the his house for a race that I have coming up in about a week and a half or so. The email was sent to me on facebook of all things. The rational was half in the right, half in the wrong. My friend is moving to a different city, and is worried that he wouldn't be able to be a good host. Fair enough. The second reason I was seriously like "are you expletive delete kidding me?" ...my friend is in a very new relationship, and does not think it would be fair to the lady he is seeing if he has a friend stay over that he is attracted to. After I stopped laughing I replied back saying, yeah a phone call would have been a better way to tell me lol. But good luck with your move and congrats on the new relationship.

The friend wound up calling me fairly quickly after getting my reply. He wanted to make sure that I am doing okay and that I really understood. I smiled and ate my words.

How can you tell someone or something that this is not the hill your going to die on? That it is not worth your time saying, your being foolish? I am of the firm mind that when people make a decision, they need to fully deal with it.

I have no idea what my next big thing or hill to climb will be...so...anyone up for a unicorn hunt?