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**ziIReIGS** · 11-26-2009, 02:33 PM

When I'm having a particularly hard time dealing with family and situations, I volunteer. In years past, instead of trying to sit across the Thanksgiving table from a total a**h*le and think murderous thoughts, I volunteered at the local homeless shelter. Or the Children's Hospital. I avoided a very miserable situation that would have left me seething for weeks; seeing kids with chemotherapy bottles helped me put things in perspective; I felt like I might be doing some good for someone else; and the family - never realizing that I was avoiding one of them - thought I was a wonderful person for volunteering!

It was a win-win situation, and I didn't have a hangover the next day! (or an outstanding police warrant against me for assault)

11-26-2009, 02:33 PM	#3
ziIReIGS Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 385 Senior Member	When I'm having a particularly hard time dealing with family and situations, I volunteer. In years past, instead of trying to sit across the Thanksgiving table from a total a*hle and think murderous thoughts, I volunteered at the local homeless shelter. Or the Children's Hospital. I avoided a very miserable situation that would have left me seething for weeks; seeing kids with chemotherapy bottles helped me put things in perspective; I felt like I might be doing some good for someone else; and the family - never realizing that I was avoiding one of them - thought I was a wonderful person for volunteering! It was a win-win situation, and I didn't have a hangover the next day! (or an outstanding police warrant against me for assault)
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