What Have You Learned About Yourself Recently??
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Wild_Honey_66
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That i need to stop putting up with so much crap, stop giving people the benefit of the doubt as much as i have in the past, stop giving the wrong people second chances, and start using my FUCK NO a lot more often.
Drama, sorted.
Drama, sorted.
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ExiledWelshman
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That I took my own health for granted and now I am terrified.
Wild_Honey_66
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Deprived_in_AZ
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Do you teach classes on how to do that? Sigh.
Deprived_in_AZ
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I understand that feeling too.
Reed8
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I don't know about things I've actually learned but am learning -
Growing up, my grandparents lived on a farm and a pecan orchard. The pecan trees were huge and gorgeous and this time of year I always think of them. There were fences about 8-10 feet from the trees around their bases to protect all the fallen pecans from the cows who loved to graze on them.
Plenty of pecans fell past those fences. Those trees were huge. Plenty enough for the cows to be satisfied. They were the same pecans, no better no worse. But those dumb cows were always getting their heads stuck in the fences trying to get to the off-limits pecans. I asked my grandfather one day when we were "unfencing" a cow, why she just didn't eat the pecans all around her feet. And he told me maybe the most poignant advice of my life - "Because cows are just dumber more stubborn versions of people - they only want it because they can't have it."
I think I've passed up good things, good people, because I didn't trust them because I didn't have to fight for them or prove something to them. And I end up wasting energy on people who could not possibly care less. A fence shouldn't make someone more desirable, the nuts all fell of the same tree.
Ok, enough rambling - just a thought I woke up with this morning.
Have a great day
I wish I could have your mind. To be able to reflect on human nature so profoundly is magical for me. Thank you for this.
-from a nut who fell on the easy side of the fence.
Wild_Honey_66
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Sure thing!
Step One: deep breath
Step Two: FUCK YOU
Step Three: walk away
That's really all there is to it.
(Note: It helps to be so sick of the bullshit you've been tolerating that you are less concerned with hurting their feelings than with doing something healthy for yourself.
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AlwaysFara
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I don't know about things I've actually learned but am learning -
Growing up, my grandparents lived on a farm and a pecan orchard. The pecan trees were huge and gorgeous and this time of year I always think of them. There were fences about 8-10 feet from the trees around their bases to protect all the fallen pecans from the cows who loved to graze on them.
Plenty of pecans fell past those fences. Those trees were huge. Plenty enough for the cows to be satisfied. They were the same pecans, no better no worse. But those dumb cows were always getting their heads stuck in the fences trying to get to the off-limits pecans. I asked my grandfather one day when we were "unfencing" a cow, why she just didn't eat the pecans all around her feet. And he told me maybe the most poignant advice of my life - "Because cows are just dumber more stubborn versions of people - they only want it because they can't have it."
I think I've passed up good things, good people, because I didn't trust them because I didn't have to fight for them or prove something to them. And I end up wasting energy on people who could not possibly care less. A fence shouldn't make someone more desirable, the nuts all fell of the same tree.
Ok, enough rambling - just a thought I woke up with this morning.
Have a great day
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Angedesoleil
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I love you. I'm here. I'm going nowhere. We will get through it *name*. I'm sorry I dont get it right all the time, but I need you to hear me; you and i are the exception to the rule. Munich is gonna happen, and it's going to be brilliant. Next Christmas is gonna happen, and it's going to be the best! Someday, I'm going to marry you. Yeah, I dont care who on here thinks I'm insane. Think away. Titanium.
All of things we have talked about, you will have. Angharad.
Daddy, most of all, just know that good days, bad days, crap days, hurting days, all days I'm here. I know it's only so much of a comfort, but it's what I have. I love you.
I'm yours, you are mine, I'm yours.
Deprived_in_AZ
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Sure thing!
Step One: deep breath
Step Two: FUCK YOU
Step Three: walk away
That's really all there is to it.
(Note: It helps to be so sick of the bullshit you've been tolerating that you are less concerned with hurting their feelings than with doing something healthy for yourself.
Sounds fairly straightforward. Alas, I’m one of those idiots who always finds excuses for someone’s bad behavior, such as, oh but they had a tough childhood, or, oh but they have such a stressful job....
I look at this every morning to try to hammer it into my brain:
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BlackCaramelCreme
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No matter how much I see disturbing traits in others, I still try to maintian my initial friendly personality. I'm not perfect, why should I expect others to be? Accept them for who they are, good or bad.
My family can be very draining, irritating and dysfunctional. I still love them though (some from afar).
No is a very good word to use...It gets your point across without being mean.
Friends are friends no matter what. I mean this in the truest sense of the word. I'm friendly to all, but friends have a special meaning and there are different levels of it.
Lastly, I procrastinate too dogg-on much.
My family can be very draining, irritating and dysfunctional. I still love them though (some from afar).
No is a very good word to use...It gets your point across without being mean.
Friends are friends no matter what. I mean this in the truest sense of the word. I'm friendly to all, but friends have a special meaning and there are different levels of it.
Lastly, I procrastinate too dogg-on much.
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The_Silver_Fox
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that people make allowances for my shortcomings
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Ausbellbaby
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I learnt that 90% of the time I'd rather be alone than put up with BS and dramas. I'm getting way to old for that shit
Zillda
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Sounds fairly straightforward. Alas, I’m one of those idiots who always finds excuses for someone’s bad behavior, such as, oh but they had a tough childhood, or, oh but they have such a stressful job....
I am one of these idiots too. I excel at de-prioritising myself. I truly want those around me to be happy, even if that means sacrificing my own happiness for them.
I need to learn to change that!
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Demons_Run
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I don't trust anyone anymore.
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Angedesoleil
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That I have three things I must have to be happy in a relationship regardless of what the relationship is:
#1 acceptance. I need the person to accept me for who I am. Criticism and judgment are a big problem for me. This is probably why I'm so self destructively open and honest if left to my own devices... I'm like THIS IS ME if you csnt handle it from go BYE. I dont want someone in my life im attached to yo get a year down the line and say " oh if I'd known that I'd have not loved you, or not been your friend. " better to know from go. I dont want to grow on you, or he accepted despite flaws, I want to be what SATISFIES.
** key, if left to my own devices. That's why it's good I'm not left yo my own devices. I need a gate keeper because it's safer for me.
#2 I need clear expectations. I cant play fluidly. I need to know exactly in detail from both directions where I stand, what is expected of me, and what I can count on. I also dont do well with someone taking AWAY what I have been told I can rely on. You can add more, but it csnt be taken away.
( if you do, trust crumbles, walls go up, and I cant trust the same way again. My RUN kicks in.)
#3 my submissive side comes with an asterisk. I will absolutely obey and submit, but only once I believe that I'm understood. That whatever situation is completely understood. If someone doesnt understand me, and understand the situation then I cant just sit down and shut up. I feel negatively.
If I believe they fully understand me and the situation, then I readily and happily accept the decision I'm given. There is one more further acknowledgment here; but it is not for open forum. It has to do with the bypass or level 8000 of that; which is the PhD in **me**. Which surpasses all of the above. It exists, but .
#1 acceptance. I need the person to accept me for who I am. Criticism and judgment are a big problem for me. This is probably why I'm so self destructively open and honest if left to my own devices... I'm like THIS IS ME if you csnt handle it from go BYE. I dont want someone in my life im attached to yo get a year down the line and say " oh if I'd known that I'd have not loved you, or not been your friend. " better to know from go. I dont want to grow on you, or he accepted despite flaws, I want to be what SATISFIES.
** key, if left to my own devices. That's why it's good I'm not left yo my own devices. I need a gate keeper because it's safer for me.
#2 I need clear expectations. I cant play fluidly. I need to know exactly in detail from both directions where I stand, what is expected of me, and what I can count on. I also dont do well with someone taking AWAY what I have been told I can rely on. You can add more, but it csnt be taken away.
( if you do, trust crumbles, walls go up, and I cant trust the same way again. My RUN kicks in.)
#3 my submissive side comes with an asterisk. I will absolutely obey and submit, but only once I believe that I'm understood. That whatever situation is completely understood. If someone doesnt understand me, and understand the situation then I cant just sit down and shut up. I feel negatively.
If I believe they fully understand me and the situation, then I readily and happily accept the decision I'm given. There is one more further acknowledgment here; but it is not for open forum. It has to do with the bypass or level 8000 of that; which is the PhD in **me**. Which surpasses all of the above. It exists, but .
BlackCaramelCreme
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I'm smarter than I give myself credit for.
I distance myself from those who likes conflict.
I am concerned about certain friends made here. This is what keeps me coming back, if only just to answer messages at times.
I am fiercely loyal.
I distance myself from those who likes conflict.
I am concerned about certain friends made here. This is what keeps me coming back, if only just to answer messages at times.
I am fiercely loyal.
ElliesExplorations
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This is a beautiful thread!
I learned that I take past events that have haunted me and don't let go of them...I hold on to them for some reason. I am learning to find ways to let go, whether it be in a form of relaxation, journaling or facing it. These have been the toughest years of my life, but I know they are there for a reason.
I learned that I take past events that have haunted me and don't let go of them...I hold on to them for some reason. I am learning to find ways to let go, whether it be in a form of relaxation, journaling or facing it. These have been the toughest years of my life, but I know they are there for a reason.
greeneyedvirgin
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That it really is me that no one wants to be around.
