My Weight Loss Adventure Day 25

Yesterday I wrote about our need for support from others when trying to reach a goal. Today, I want to talk about people who try to get in the way of reaching a goal.

I have been using movie and character illustration this week, to make it easier to see what I am writing about. Let’s do that again today.

In the movie Funny Girl, Fanny Brice, played by Barbra Streisand, who is one of Ziegfeld’s headline acts in the Ziegfeld follies, makes a decision in the train station. She decides she will not go on with the tour of the show, but go after her heart instead. Fellow performers and even Ziegfeld himself attempt to talk her out of the decision, but Fanny sings her reply, in the song “Don’t Rain On My Parade.”

Fanny’s friends and her employer tell her no, that what she is doing is foolish, that her decision could ruin her life and her career, and Fanny makes a reply that she knows what she must do and will go through with it.

I find in life that there is always someone that tries to “rain on my parade.” Someone will say that I can’t do it, whatever “it” happen to be, that I don’t have enough education, talent or intelligence. And the most insidious when it comes to losing weight: that I look fine. Sometimes that voice telling me these things is the one inside my head. That voice that simple says, “You’re not good enough,” or “you don’t have what it takes.”

It is time to ignore the voices that put us down, whether they come from inside, or outside. We need to move forward, focus on the goal and listen to the voices that support us. Will we make mistakes on our journey? Of course, but we learn and grow, or in our cases, slim down from those mistakes. We don’t give up, and we tell the people that say we should, or make an attempt to stop us, to shut up.

In short, when you come across someone who wants to stop you from making changes in your life, or redirecting your future, or doing something that seems impossible, be firm and tell them, “don’t rain on my parade!” Of course that really means, get out of my way, or get run down.

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