wandersalone
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FR John, for years we have read your threads and they pretty much all (to my recollection) are based on bitterness and self-pity. Have you ever looked at the patterns in your life and thought about what the commmon denominators are? Why do so many crap things happen to YOU specifically? May I gently and with kindness suggest that you start looking inwards, at your attitudes, your actions, the thoughts and feelings from the past that you carry around like a huge black lump of coal inside you. Each day, when you go out, this is what I imagine people see, not the nice person that I have no doubt is hidden behind this wall of bitterness. I had an ex very much like you. We broke up over three years ago and after a couple of months break I contacted him as I wanted us to be friends. After all, there were things I had loved about him. He fought against this saying he had never been friends with an ex before. But guess what? We had three wonderful years of friendship and he was my main support after my car accident last year. He still carried so much bitterness inside him though and even though he worked really hard when with me or in contact with me to let out the kind hearted person I absolutely knew he was, there were times when he had to hide behind his old patterns and push me away with his negativity and his pity stories and his anger at the world. So yesterday I told him that he had won. I could not keep competing with this bitterness of his and even though I love this man deeply as a friend and he has done so much for me over the years, I said goodbye to him and that I would not contact him again. How many friends do you have John? How many people love you? How many people will you continue to push away because of all of this bitterness inside you. The world doesn't owe you a thing but you do yourself a huge disservice by allowing negativity to rule your life. said with kindness and compassion because I feel like a traitor for having thrown this person out of my life but bitterness is such an ugly emotion and it makes those around you feel worthless and helpless and sad and they eventually don't want to be around you any more.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Godmother of the subbie mafia My all time favourite threads http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=2002501 http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=790885
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