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Setting Yourself Free |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana 
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our self-worth, i.e., our ego can be a masochistically attractive although humiliation is its ultimate purpose others see that in you you refuse to accept adjustment claiming it is uncultivated as the black as midnight crows call out forevermore inside your mangled thoughts where the sun is nevermore shines only in sardonic remembrances of the faceless women each moment drawn into a reconstructed myth where you are the hero the conquer wearing the white hat this is an ego appealing viewpoint pulling fiction into our lives eventually believing it ourselves until, near the end you receive such a violent tsunami within yourself pangs of guilt wash over you like the actual waves of the tsunami you are swamped with the need to put all the lies back together in their nice little space but no what happened happened you have freed yourself the creature has left it will never return you are free I don’t feel free I liked living with all my lies let me return no . . . it will take time to adjust ©April 6, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Ain't that the truth "it will take time to adjust". Even when you are making changes for the good, your loved ones will cringe at the "adjustment" and often unknowingly try to get you to change back to bad but familiar old ways. It is a tough nut to crack! (but worth it) Lori  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
WoW! What a comment, Lori. And every word of it is true. People close to us a lot of times had rather have us stay the same even when our "same" isn't in our best interest. New routines in ourselves cause alarm more than acceptance. Again, your comment was great! ~*~ Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? ~*~ |
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