The chase

When I was little a girl called me a mean name, so I got up and ran around the table chasing her, with no clue what I was going to do once I caught her.

I had seen all the other kids doing this, saying "I'm going to get you". Perhaps it was all about the chase. I just wanted to be part of it, I wanted to fit in.

I don't think I ever caught her.

Sometimes we say things that hit too close to the truth, like 'Why are you acting so hormonal, are you pregnant?'.

Or, 'If you wife keeps taking trips out of town, people will think you are getting divorced'.

And then we realize how dumb it was to say that, because it doesn't even matter if we hit upon the truth. We just wish that we hadn't uncovered it.

 Truth: I hate Fall, because it signifies that Winter is coming, and I hate winter.

Truth: I am hating my new semester and wishing I was not in school.

Truth: Sometimes you are mean to someone not because you dislike them, but because they have no right being around.

People are still wishing, Happy New Year, but it doesn't feel like a fresh new start to me.

If feels like the 'same old same old' repeating itself. I just did this all last year, so can we wrap it up please?

P.S.

My music professor said that horns were used as instruments in Africa long ago. Then he showed us this clip:

 The students were laughing, but I thought how great it is that Jews are such a part of society. Plus I'm like, hey I just heard that on Rosh Hashana.