Thank you.
Yeah, the guy is apparently 26 years old but he has the sophomoric attitude of a teenager. My boys were more mature at 16! So many of these millennials truly have their heads up their asses and are so programmed by the system that they are unable to think for themselves, only spout their programmed social/corporate propaganda. It's frightening.
I suppose it's always been this way. Only a few creative individuals ever move things in a different direction. The vast majority follow like sheep to the slaughter and make the same mistakes as their predecessors when the information to make a difference is in plain sight and always has been. So unnecessary and such a waste and ultimately, so dangerous.
I was raised by my mother. She tried to be a father to me, which was a mistake. What she did for me, however, was to allow me to question authority and counseled me to not trust what people told me, that just because someone was in a position of authority, didn't mean that they knew what they were talking about. Of course, I rebelled against her teachings, but later, I realized that she was wise in her assessment of the world.
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran is a treasure. I like a lot what he wrote.
Thanks for that. I am really late with a reply. But got myself busy with useless conversations. I am having a really grumpy day.
Also taking too much sadness on. Doesn't do me good. So I must change some of my helping habits.
How are you?
I'll see if you wrote something.
Bye & sincere greetings to you.
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Isn't he though! I grew up with Gibran. Read that book until it fell apart.
That's why I'd rather be sympathetic than empathetic. Empaths take on the pain of those around them. I refuse to do that.
Reread choose happiness and let that other stuff go.
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What can I do? That is my greatest gift yet it's my greatest pain. If I wouldn't be empathetically skilled, the suffering of others wouldn't touch me. I don't think that I can choose what is the essence of my character. As I am a woman and have built in me this quality I take on that role. People call it mirror-neurons and stuff like that but in the end, it is the capability to feel what another one feels and to respond on that.
I need a guide myself once in a while and that is hard to find. Where I can discuss and reflect what's going on in me and how I can protect myself without withdrawing completely.
For the role of men (who also are good empaths, I don't want to paint it all one dimensional) mostly male roles should provide something different from females instead of competing with them.
Does that make sense to you?
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