Denial is a powerful tool. Never underestimate its ability to cloud your vision.
Be aware that, for many reasons, we have become experts at using this tool to make reality more tolerable.
We have learned well how to stop the pain caused by reality - not by changing our circumstances, but by pretending our circumstances are something other than what they are.
Do not be too hard on yourself.
While one part of you was busy creating a fantasy reality, the other part went to work on accepting the truth.
Now, it is time to find courage.
Face the truth.
Let it sink gently in.
When we can do that, we will be moved forward.
3 comments:
I come here for the lessons. This is a good one. I don't use the word tolerate any longer. It is acceptance, not toleration. Accepting rather than denying.
You are a good fairy, thanks.
denying for me sometimes isn't necessarily creating a fantasy to replace reality...it's simply ignoring the obvious & plodding forward anyway. sigh, end result though is often the same...so perhaps I should try to fantasize a wee bit more hahahaha
By the way, I linked to you today on an Only the Good Friday post.
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