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July 13, 2014 at 6:49 pm #60805AnonymousInactive
Hi again,
So a few weeks have past and I am still struggling to fully become myself and to fully accept myself. I have been constantly alone and this hasn’t been as negative as it may sound. I have just been thinking alot and while this can spark some good thoughts, it really ignites the bad. My past will not leave me. I keep thinking and thinking “You are the worst kind of person because, you lied, you were too dependent, you were self adsorbed, you ruined your relationships with everyone around you, you didn’t try, you disappointed those closest to you, you don’t know what you want to do in life, you are lost trash.” Extremely harsh words I have been saying to myself and I can’t stop. I have people who say they still care about me and they just want me to be myself, but I just feel its easier said than done. I don’t want to disappoint them though. That’s the biggest thing to me. I just close my eyes and see them all turning their backs to me as they continue to walk forward. I have something going with a guy that I was friend’s with before and we are currently just dating, but I want to potentially have something more in the future, but I need to move on from this or that will never happen. He says he wants to get to know me better and have more meaningful conversation like we had had in the past. He said all he wants is for me to be myself. That is what all of my friends are saying too (the ones that I still have at least). Also, I am starting at an art college in January and I need to have something to motivate me when im there. The people who say they still care about me aren’t with me all the time like they were in the past because I had moved.
Its just…on the track im riding right now, ill never get there.
Please I need some encouragement, im scared and I am done living like this.
Thanks
July 14, 2014 at 4:15 am #60817InkyParticipantTwo questions, deep ones:
1. What profound thing/condition went on to make you have the original feeling of Shame?
2. What event triggered it?
I ask because you are still young (college age). People move/leave all the time. Everyone (sorry!) is at least a little self-absorbed in their teens/early twenties. Because you are scared of disappointing means that you are not as selfish as you think! But what is the root of not wanting to disappoint?? And why in the world should you know what to do with your life already? And being too dependent = fear. What were you afraid of? And not trying? I can’t believe that ~ and if for one minute you didn’t try, why would you not want to give yourself a break from all this? And it takes two to truly ruin relationships. So I am questioning all your thoughts, and I don’t even know you!! Please flip any thoughts around that are negative.
I’ve had this feeling before over a specific situation ~ so much so that it was obvious it wasn’t about the specific situation at all!
July 14, 2014 at 8:17 am #60831AnonymousInactiveAnswers to the questions:
1. & 2. I had had a falling out with a close friend of mine and she found me to be a toxic person in her life and told me exactly what I had done to her and how she felt about me. I asked her to tell me though, because I was completely in the dark about her feelings. When she told me she didn’t hold anything back and those words that she told me are the ones I repeat in my head.
I’ve already disappointed people and its become so common that people have learned not to expect alot out of me and to not get their hopes up. I am afraid of not being myself. Everything I do, I look and I wonder if I am doing this thing because I want to or because I feel like I should. I have taken risks and done things in the past and before things turned out fine. Then I started to make bad decisions and choices unknowingly. I would go into something with full confidence believing that I had made a great choice and then come to find out that I chose incorrectly and screwed myself over.
Overall the fear is making the same mistakes I did in the past and not moving forward like I hope to.
I am good at so many things and I have my own charms and perks, I just don’t know or remember how to utilize those like I have done before.
The positive thing that I currently have in my mind to use as my fuel now, is the fact that I have turned my life around 360 degrees before. I am just worried that it might be too late for me to do that again.
July 14, 2014 at 4:57 pm #60880InkyParticipantIronically, those same friends who let you have it are the same ones who would be flabbergasted if we ever said one contrary thing to them. It is possible that she feels guilty for being so hard on you. I’m sure she’s not perfect either!
The good news is everyone’s only getting older and the chances of making social and life changing snafus are bound to go down as wisdom increases!
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