Note to self:
Trust the damn process.
Trust the damn process.
For instance, continuing to care about people despite the ways they disappoint you, for the good of your own soul.
No one ever said it was going to be easy.
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No one ever said it was going to be easy.
Or having compassion for myself (and you) when all your successes remind me of my failures.
And remembering that chasing other people& #39;s approval is just a form of running away from yourself.
That& #39;s why it hardly helps when you get it, and puts you in a world of pain when you don& #39;t.
That& #39;s why it hardly helps when you get it, and puts you in a world of pain when you don& #39;t.
All these things being pretty much counter-instinctual, by the way, unless you are one of those perfectly self-actualized types who I feel like throwing stuff at right now.
(Hence this thread.)
(Hence this thread.)