offended much?

I've realized that the older I get the more easily I get offended by people, and honestly most of the time it's silly things that are taken wrongly and then multiplied and than I go looking for other reasons not to like that person! Can you said crazy lady? *conducts the chorus of crazy lady* And other times I feel justified in my getting put off by someone and instead of wanting to revolve those feelings I just avoid being that person because, heck, that's a whole lot easier than given them a chance to "redeem" themselves. Which is dumb how can someone make up for something they didn't even know they did. Everyone say will say something that will offend someone else without even knowing it.

Case in point there is a woman in our branch at church, for those of you who don't know we're in a care center for our church calling which we LOVE! (no sarcasm we really do love serving there) but there is one woman that is just a bit ornery, she's made comments about a dress I wore that she didn't like, she's asked me if I'm pregnant (which I'm not people I just carry my weight in my tummy!!! lol) and quite a few other things. So when we were at the center doing some visiting we ran into LaRae and she was telling us that she "apparently" had offended a lady that lived there and the woman told LaRae that she would NEVER talk to her again and has been true to her word. But the thing is LaRae had no idea that she had done anything to this woman and was upset that she had. LaRae told us she tries not to offend people which goes to show that even the most "offensive" people probably don't mean to be.

This post is just for my benefit really to show how silly it is to become offended by people and to let it interfere with being friends with someone or harboring bad feelings about someone. It's not showing so-and-so anything all it's doing is hurting ourselves. For one you've lost a friend and two you're the one left with the negative feelings. So silly! So I guess the whole reason for this post is to show that again I'm NOWHERE near perfect and that hopefully it'll help someone out there. I know there aren't a whole lot of people who read my blog but still hopefully it helps someone =D And if I've ever offended you I'm SO sorry I didn't mean it in that way and I didn't mean to hurt you at all. I'm in this whole journey called life along with everyone else and I make just as many mistakes as the next person if not more and I apologize for my insensitivity and hope you'll forgive me if I have cause you to be offended.