TRIGGER FINGER

Yesterday, my husband and I returned from a beautiful trip spent with family up in New York. We overdosed on love and laughter with those that share our DNA. Once home and unpacked, Julitto was over the moon to finally be able to surprise me with the Christmas gift he purchased; A baby blue colored small Glock19 hand gun, often common with the ladies. I was overjoyed! My animal-loving vegan-hippie peace-preaching self is not exactly into weapons of any kind, however, this allowed me to be able to join my husband on the range, which is one of his favorite places to play and practice. Something that once separated us, now became one more thing we could join together. His idea was brilliant and I was grateful. Small, cute, and comfortable. I can learn this!

Within minutes I took a quick photo of my new adventure and posted it on Facebook for my friends and family to see and join me in this neat little celebration. Many of my girlfriends were excited to see that my Christmas gift matched theirs perfectly, as their husband's had a the same idea as well. Yeyyy!!! We can all learn together. How fun.

I was caught by surprise however, by the random backlash that flew in almost immediately. "Finger off the trigger." Oh wow, hadn't even realized my picture positioning....yet, what I did realize is that our new gun was not loaded, nor did we even own the bullets for it yet. What was suppose to be a quick snap photo for family & excited friends, turned into social media warfare. And then it hit me....

I saw something. A big something. After I disclosed the information about it being a bullet-less weapon and how all the countless hours of being trained on the range has not happened yet, the negativity, judgement, and criticisms continued to roll in. How odd? That is because their posts were not about the photo, me, or even concern for safety. It was about them and feeding their ego. Because they had an opportunity to boast the knowledge that I had yet received. This was not a friend looking out for another friend, this was an excuse to pass along a negative vibration. I was even accused of representing all females in a dark light. ((((blank stare)))) That is a large amount of power.....

The point is friends and readers. I am not on such a vibration. I deleted the photo and stopped all negative breeding in it's tracks. I write this blog today about it, not to feed yesterday's wolf, but to bring awareness to INTENT. Before you reach out to others with any kind of advice or guidance, be sure to check your intent and tune in to WHY you want to dispense. Are you genuinely concerned for another and wish to help? Or are you just using this opportunity to be a "cool kid" ?