There are two types of people in this world, and it\u2019s not those who like Neil Diamond and those who don\u2019t for you \u201cWhat About Bob\u201d fans. No, I am referring to those who Grumble and those who are Busy Being. If you haven`t heard of the \u201cGrumblers\u201d and the \u201cBusy Beings\u201d before, let me explain them to you.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with those who Grumble.\u00a0 One of my favorite book series was written by author Lucy Maud Montgomery, who wrote the Anne of Green Gables books. My Grandma Pearson bought me her books when I was a young girl and I absolutely loved them!\u00a0 Ms. Montgomery wrote a fabulous poem about the Grumble Family:<\/p>\n
The Grumble Family<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s a family nobody likes to meet; They growl at that and they growl at this; The weather is always too hot or cold; They growl at the rain and they growl at the sun; But the queerest thing is that not one of the same The worst thing is that if anyone stays And so it were wisest to keep our feet Let us learn to walk with a smile and song, Next up is those people who are Busy Being, and this next poem describes perfectly those type of people:<\/span><\/p>\n If<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n If you were busy being kind, It you were busy being glad If you were busy being good, If you were busy being true If you were busy being right, Such different groups of people, the Grumblers and the Busy Beings.\u00a0 And what a contrast there is in their happiness levels in life.\u00a0\u00a0 If you look in the mirror and are honest with yourself, which group would you say you belong to today?\u00a0\u00a0 Which group would you say you usually belong to most days?\u00a0 All I know is that when I stop and consider which group I want to be a part of it is without question the group that is Busy Being.\u00a0 They just sound so much happier!\u00a0 And so I will try and remember today to be kind, be glad, be good, be true, and most important to be the best being that I can possibly be.<\/p>\n BE KIND AND BE HAPPY TODAY!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are two types of people in this world, and it\u2019s not those who like Neil Diamond and those who don\u2019t for you \u201cWhat About Bob\u201d fans. No, I am referring to those who Grumble and those who are Busy Being. If you haven`t heard of the \u201cGrumblers\u201d and the \u201cBusy Beings\u201d before, let me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4157,4155,245,4159,2110,3113,51,1804,4161,4158,4152,55,180,451,1547,257,2188,216,4156,4153,1668,2408,81,4160,2276,740,4151,2263,4154],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anne-of-green-gables","tag-busy-beings","tag-complain","tag-complaining","tag-criticize","tag-doubt","tag-family","tag-forget","tag-glad","tag-grandma-pearson","tag-grumblers","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-heart","tag-honest","tag-humble","tag-if","tag-kind","tag-lucy-maud-montgomery","tag-neil-diamond","tag-sad","tag-satisfied","tag-smile","tag-smle","tag-song","tag-sun","tag-the-grumble-family","tag-true","tag-what-about-bob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThey live, it is said, on Complaining Street
\nIn the city of Never-Are-Satisfied,
\nThe River of Discontent beside.<\/p>\n
\nWhatever comes, there is something amiss;
\nAnd whether their station be high or humble,
\nThey are all known by the name of grumble.<\/p>\n
\nSummer and winter alike they scold.
\nNothing goes right with the folks you meet
\nDown on that gloomy Complaining Street.<\/p>\n
\nIn fact, their growling is never done.
\nAnd if everything pleased them, there isn\u2019t a doubt
\nThey\u2019d growl that they\u2019d nothing to grumble about!<\/p>\n
\nCan be brought to acknowledge his family name;
\nFor never a Grumbler will own that he
\nIs connected with it at all, you see.<\/p>\n
\nAmong them too long, he will learn their ways;
\nAnd before he dreams of the terrible jumble
\nHe\u2019s adopted into the family of Grumble.<\/p>\n
\nFrom wandering into Complaining Street;
\nAnd never to growl, whatever we do,
\nLest we be mistaken for Grumblers, too.<\/p>\n
\nNo matter if things do sometimes go wrong;
\nAnd then, be our station high or humble,
\nWe\u2019ll never belong to the family of Grumble!<\/p>\n
\nBefore you knew it you would find
\nYou\u2019d soon forget to think \u2019twas true
\nThat someone was unkind to you.<\/p>\n
\nand cheering people who seem sad,
\nAlthough your heart might ache a bit,
\nYou\u2019d soon forget to notice it.<\/p>\n
\nAnd doing just the best you could,
\nYou\u2019d not have time to blame some man
\nWho\u2019s doing just the best he can.<\/p>\n
\nTo what you know you ought to do,
\nYou\u2019d be so busy you\u2019d forget
\nThe blunders of the folks you’ve met.<\/p>\n
\nYou\u2019d find yourself too busy quite
\nTo criticize your brother long,
\nBecause he\u2019s busy being wrong.<\/p>\n