Life is so strange. One needs to be open-minded to learn, to grow, and find some peace within. As a child, most everything and everyone was to be feared. As a teenager it was the same, only more risks were taken to try to change things. As an adult - well, it is all the same as before, although by being willing to learn and to challenge old beliefs, and weighing risks more carefully, that is how one evolves.
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One of the most important things I’ve learned is to let people be who they are. I cannot change them. “Live and let live” as they say in recovery. I don’t have to like what they do, I can disagree, but I wonder what is it inside them that makes them think the way they do? Why do they give such immense power to others to rule their views of life?
Somewhere deep inside is an insecurity, whenever someone derides another for their beliefs. What are you so afraid of? Will you feel unloved? Unwanted? Will you be a nothing, a nobody? Would you feel ashamed if you were to change your own belief or perspective?
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Sometimes reality is so very painful, people will just bury themselves into a cult-like frenzy to protect themselves from the rawness of deep emotion.
Sometimes people can have a break-through. Often not. People might live their entire lives on the notion that they are very important and everyone should follow what they say and believe (but not necessarily what they do).
Open-mindedness, exploring the other possibilities, the acceptance that people are not necessarily bad or wrong, but they are troubled. We all are in some way. You be you. I’ll be me. Living examples for all to see, and to learn by. Theresa M
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