This post may be a little too heavy for some, but I feel the need to share these thoughts. Maybe someone out there reading this feels lost and they're crying on the inside, even if they seem completely normal outwardly. There are many things that make us hurt emotionally. Death, divorce, and family contention are just three causes that come to my mind.
I've been thinking a lot the last few days about how we treat each other. Family relationships are hard to nurture and maintain sometimes. Duty and love become blurred, so you ease along pretending things are right with your world. That's a coping mechanism that allows you to go forward in the world and survive.
I bet you're thinking, I wonder if she's a psychologist? Nope, just a person coping with life and still trying to figure it out. We can either let life overwhelm us and crack or we can choose to let God, a higher being, strengthen us and give us hope for a brighter future. God can't do it alone though, we have to be willing to survive the hurt and pain we endure on this earth.
Anger
This may sound like I'm a wonderful person, well I'm not so wonderful, not even close. I get very defensive when approached with the slightest rebuff or negative comment. Not a good trait to have, but unfortunately it's the way I seem to cope.
Attitude! Yeah, that's me, and I wish I didn't have it, but that's my defense mechanism.
Second face is the real sad feeling you get when you're hurt, after the initial anger has subsided.
Third is the waterworks. The hurt builds into a flood of tears because you feel people are unkind and insensitive and they try to diminish you and your space in which you feel secure. Some people are just totally self-centered and when you can accept that fact, then comes healing and knowledge. Knowledge gives us power.
Last face is a happy one. If anyone can figure out how to keep this one all the time, let me know, okay?
I feel a bit better, don't you? Wow! Self therapy is certainly helpful and really really cheap.
Happy thoughts and good cheer to you all...............
Until Later,
Okie Girl @ Home
I agree with all of your faces. Life is hard if we let it, I for one have a hard time not letting things bother me. I need help with that one imperfection that I have. And I have alot of them. Only God can help us with all of them, I pray that he helps us all through these trying times now days. Just my thought, not every one has to agree with it.
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