Yesterday I learned a hard lesson about taking things personally. The lesson obviously being: don’t do it. This is a lesson that I grapple with daily, sometimes hourly, and it is difficult to be an emotional person and connect to people on many levels and then learn when to take actions personally and when to know it is not about you. We are all walking around the planet with our own bag of stuff that we bring to every person or scenario so chances are an emotional flare up is really not about us. But so hard to remember this in the moment, so hard.
[and just so that no one, regular reader or friend worries- this song is not about you, it's about me, and lessons. And a photo friday theme...]
This week’s photo friday theme is buttons. Feel free to be as abstract or as literal as you want to be.
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I hear you there. I have such a hard time not taking things personally. Hope it all calms down and feels better soon. Hugs to you.
It took me like five minutes to figure out what a pressed button was. And then I smacked myself on the forehead.
I’d like to preemptively enter this photograph: http://herewegoajen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/IMG_5120.jpg
Oh do I EVER have a hard time with this. And when it IS personal, not to care because most of the time, that person is a shit anyway. sigh.