When righteous anger no longer serves
Posted on January 31, 2024 2 Comments
I do not choose to be victimized twice by carrying negativity, hate, and unresolved feelings toward _____.
ghandi, via susan lander
I’ve been equating righteous anger with learning to stand up for myself. Learning to not continue to allow myself to be taken advantage of, in my personal nature.
And that’s been great; yay, me.
But now I see that by naming my anger (helpful), then continuing to hold onto my righteousness (unhelpful), I just become another kind of victim.
Oh. Snap.
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Posted on January 24, 2024 Leave a Comment
I do not need to make myself tired
she said to herself, she said
in order to give myself a rest.
Oh, wow.
I wonder where else I might revisit how I see things…?
Awkward…
Posted on January 17, 2024 Leave a Comment
I was having a conversation the other day with an acquaintance, the kind where we begin with, “How have you been?” And they started talking about the painful plantar wart that they finally had removed recently.
Which is totally fine, of course. After all, I did ask. But there was this moment of “Wait. What?!?” that we both felt.
Awkward…
And you know what? I could have walked away thinking how clumsy and ungraceful they were. Sheesh.
Or… I could have carried away from that conversation that they were perhaps uncomfortable, uneasy, or embarrassed. Maybe even navigating some pain.
We never fully know the situation another is going through, or what they are currently mentally processing. What leaks out when an opening is offered sometimes is a surprise. To them, too.
I notice my own pattern of awkwardness seems to be that when I realize I’m in it, I use even more words to try and clear it up. To speak my way through the initial clownish indication to a clearer, more elegant expression.
Which, seriously, seems to only make me even more awkward in the moment…
Read MoreEnough, already
Posted on January 10, 2024 Leave a Comment
I don’t have to perfect myself in any way;
I can exist just as I am.
Sarajane Case
What if we let go of resolutions, and just beheld curiosity?
I wonder if we would live from our positives, rather than from a pursuit of overcoming our perceived negatives?
Our own, and others’…
I’m going to try.
A magical year
Posted on January 3, 2024 Leave a Comment
The start of the new year brings a sense of new beginnings. Regardless of what type of fresh start we may choose to turn towards, success will work with us if we allow it to. We are in charge of the pace and the rhythm of our lives, and we get to begin again each day. Each moment, actually.
What if we saw each moment as the magic doorway that it is? What is it that we choose to walk through? Do we know that we can choose again?
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