A few months ago a friend told me that she had been in counseling for years—she was reliving several heartbreaking incidents from her childhood, and no matter what she did, she couldn’t seem to let them go. One day her counselor had said, “You’ve spent a lot of time examining these events, which was good, but you have learned all there is to learn. Im going to tell you something special: you are now in recovery. You are ready to put it all behind you. Today you are moving down a fresh path.” And you know what? She did. Isn’t it interesting how sometimes what we need is for someone to tell us that it’s time to move on? Sometimes, of course, we know it’s time to move on and we can’t quite do it—sometimes we find ourselves stuck in a revolving door of anxious memory. Right? So many of us are stuck going round and round and round, and attempting to find meaning in events so convoluted that it would take a miracle to untangle the thread. And that’s just the anxious memory part—we’re not even talking about all the ripples that each event has on every moment thereafter. And even knowing all of this about the fragile nature of ourselves, sometimes I look at a person and make a judgment about who he or she is based upon one situational observation. Thats terribly short-sighted, isn’t it? I should probably stop doing that.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:06:32 +0000
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