I absolutely love this. I really needed it back during the holidays, when I wasn't invited to a party that it seemed all my local friends and neighbors were invited to. It started when I heard about the party from someone who assumed I was invited. I got no invite, so I tried to surrepticiously investigate why. Eventually, I think one of the people with whom I tried to be surrepticious told the hostess, and she then quickly invited me, asking me not to tell anyone else, adding that she "couldn't invite the whole neighborhood." So I went to the party, cheerful though figuring that I wasn't supposed to be there. During this whole process, I saw the confident, outgoing woman that I thought I had become dissolve into the introverted little wallflower that I was in my teens.
I can laugh about it now, but this dynamic dominated my holiday season. I think the bottom line in all of this is that the relationship that we first need to work on is the relationship with ourselves! If I can ever stop comparing myself to others, all of whom I am convinced are doing life "right" while I am doing it "wrong," day will finally dawn...I think!
I absolutely love this. I really needed it back during the holidays, when I wasn't invited to a party that it seemed all my local friends and neighbors were invited to. It started when I heard about the party from someone who assumed I was invited. I got no invite, so I tried to surrepticiously investigate why. Eventually, I think one of the people with whom I tried to be surrepticious told the hostess, and she then quickly invited me, asking me not to tell anyone else, adding that she "couldn't invite the whole neighborhood." So I went to the party, cheerful though figuring that I wasn't supposed to be there. During this whole process, I saw the confident, outgoing woman that I thought I had become dissolve into the introverted little wallflower that I was in my teens.
I can laugh about it now, but this dynamic dominated my holiday season. I think the bottom line in all of this is that the relationship that we first need to work on is the relationship with ourselves! If I can ever stop comparing myself to others, all of whom I am convinced are doing life "right" while I am doing it "wrong," day will finally dawn...I think!
Loved this conversation!! Let’s get back to our roots and dance!!
Just what I needed today, thank y’all!