When I spend resources trying to avoid the painful moment I am imagining, I will never know how to respond to the actual experience. Everything becomes a story about a fix to a broken fix to another useless hole. These responses to my discomfort only create a new narrative of pain for myself and others. I avoid living in an impermanent moment out of fear.
betrayal
19: A Love Letter to Betrayers – More on Anger
Here is the reality, dig down a bit, and beneath all Painter’s cuntishness is pain. I know it isn’t personal, except where I make it so.
27: Wayne’s World
Now I live in the new moment, each just as fragile and impermanent.
15: Reminder2self: Accountability
“Accountability doesn’t mean punishment. Accountability is a willingness to accept responsibility for our own actions.”
Lessons From a Black Friday: Year Three
Three years today it ended.
I’m really grateful it is over.