Wednesday, June 20, 2007

....another TFTD

Many of us have gone so numb and discounted our feelings so completely that we have gotten out of touch with our needs in relationships.
We can learn to distinguish whose company we enjoy, whether we're talking about friends, business acquaintances, dates, or spouses.
We all need to interact with people we might prefer to avoid, but we don't have to force ourselves through long-term or intimate relationships with these people.
We are free to choose friends, dates, and spouses.
We are free to choose how much time we spend with those people we can't always choose to be around, such as relatives.

This is our life.
This is it.
We can decide how we want to spend our days and hours.
We're not enslaved.
We're not trapped.
And not one of us is without options.
We may not see our options clearly.
Although we may have to struggle through shame and learn to own our power, we can learn to spend our valuable hours and days with the people we enjoy and choose to be with.

4 comments:

mig bardsley said...

Well as long as I can choose to be here sometimes I'm happy :)

singleton said...

Amen!
over and over, again....

Fire Byrd said...

Those are powerful words and worth holding on to all the time.

Knowing we have choices is a powerful strength that many deny themselves through self hate and low self esteem.

I know i spend enough time trying to get people to learn how to feel beter about themselves.
px

I, Like The View said...

this is it

:-)