Sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't do better to just 'fall apart' and be all the horrible things I am so I can actually 'get them out' and then be the positive, loving person I know I am as well. (Well, I think I am loving already but everything else knocks it out?!) I am just sooooh full of fear and disbelief based on experiences - even though I try to look on the side of just how lucky I am compared to so many. (This'll post and then I'll read what everone else is going through and I'll cringe at my pathetic-ness. So a big sorry now. But is it OK to try and get this sorted do you think... I've struggled with it for so long...it certainly had a lot to do with my 'making friends with the bottle'... And yet I am so lucky. (To my knowledge) I'm not seriously ill, nor are my kids, I don't live in a war zone, I'm not starving, I have a roof over my head, I can make music, read, walk, see and hear....) But if I am so lucky, why can't I turn that luck into something really useful? I 'should' be able to do that surely?
What does any one think about this though - if you think about how much worse things could be, is that the mind truly 'seeing' the bad things. Sort of, 'don't think of a lemon...' sort of stuff? By trying to be 'grateful' is my mind seeing only neggy things? I AM grateful for all I have...but I know it would be OK for me to 'have' a little bit more. (But, dammit, I don't. What's wrong with me???....and that was shouted...)
(Um, as I typed that there was Buddhist speakng on the radio about allowing change...life is transient. I so agree. It helped a lot. It's that nothing seems to be changing in my life - life constipation! And has been for too long. Yet, here I go again; I want to feel grateful because change might bring something terrible like my son having a terrible accident....my mind is straight on to the life scenario that would bring...I wipe it immediately believing we do get what we think. But never does my mind imagine change bringing what I do want like living in a lovely house with a loving man and me earning good money doing what I'm trained to do....I've written it down, practised it in my mind, I read it every night before I go to sleep....and still it doesn't happen coz my mind's a neggy sewer.... When I think it it goes, "Nah, not you. You can help anyone else have it but you can't.".... ???)
Thing is, it really saddens me to realise that there isn't one cell in me that thinks I deserve to work successfully, earn enough to get off benefits, own my own home or (just deleted 'and'...?) be loved by a wonderful man. And now I am just too afraid to try again - there have been too many failures. And I'm not especially depressed at the moment,; I've felt like this for ages and ages. I'm just facing fact because I have to turn this around. I do believe things could feel better, I do believe anyone deserves those things above to happen to them...so if I haven't got them it must be only me that's stopping me from having them? I just long for the (real) hand reaching out to help me take little tiny steps towards success and a tiny bit of self-belief....needle-in-a-haystack though.
But if you 'can't fix a broken tool with the same broken tool' - (me! And yet I go on trying!).... I don't know what to do. And I so want to. More than anything. Stopping drinking has been wonderful but not sorted any of this out. Just made this stuff even more obvious.
I'll bash on - what else. And I'll keep working at it - the thinking. And keep busy doing all I can around what I enjoy. And helping others. And filling in my gratitude book every night. And praying, too!!!! (I've got a little tiny (?!) scrap of paper above me bed that says, "Wish" and I realise I can't do wishing for me any more....what happened?)
Thanks - sorry to dump...any feedback gratefully received... (sorry, it's getting like, "Heck, here comes Finding with her old 'problem'....run!" )
Love FMF xx
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