This piece hits home as I’ve been on a long journey this past year of change and growth and trying to hold compassion for my former and current struggling self. Thanks for writing. I really loved this bit: “Also, we spill coffee, we cry over it, we hold mugs in different ways to prevent spillage, we spill less frequently until one day we spill again, the mug shatters, we despair, we buy a new mug, or we have one less mug in the cupboard, until we get another mug, as a gift, from another person or from ourself, we stop drinking coffee, we switch to tea, we go back to coffee. We miss deadlines, we berate ourselves, we adhere to new deadlines.”
Thank you so much for this. It really resonates with how I'm feeling at the moment as I move into another new "era" - I really struggle to have compassion for my former selves as I feel that they contributed to the difficulties I'm dealing with now. Lots to think about & work through, for sure!
That's a really good point. It makes me think about how sometimes just being able to see the difficulties you're facing — and understand where they came from — is in and of itself a victory. It can be so hard to see things as they are and choose to continue looking at them anyway; I think that takes a lot more resolve than we give credit for.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, and I'm so glad the piece resonated!
This piece hits home as I’ve been on a long journey this past year of change and growth and trying to hold compassion for my former and current struggling self. Thanks for writing. I really loved this bit: “Also, we spill coffee, we cry over it, we hold mugs in different ways to prevent spillage, we spill less frequently until one day we spill again, the mug shatters, we despair, we buy a new mug, or we have one less mug in the cupboard, until we get another mug, as a gift, from another person or from ourself, we stop drinking coffee, we switch to tea, we go back to coffee. We miss deadlines, we berate ourselves, we adhere to new deadlines.”
I'm so grateful to hear that the piece resonated with you and which part in particular stood out! It's definitely a journey. life-long!
Thank you so much for this. It really resonates with how I'm feeling at the moment as I move into another new "era" - I really struggle to have compassion for my former selves as I feel that they contributed to the difficulties I'm dealing with now. Lots to think about & work through, for sure!
That's a really good point. It makes me think about how sometimes just being able to see the difficulties you're facing — and understand where they came from — is in and of itself a victory. It can be so hard to see things as they are and choose to continue looking at them anyway; I think that takes a lot more resolve than we give credit for.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, and I'm so glad the piece resonated!