In theme parks all the characters are happy. The little talking mouse never has a headache. The family of pigs don't have a blazing domestic row in front of the public. But then, they are actors in costumes. If one of them shows up to work in an unsatisfactory state, they are replaced by a different performer in the same outfit. But who can play the 'part of you' when you don't feel ready and willing to play your own part in the world? You can't hide behind a facade. A deeper issue must be addressed.
Life has taught you so many lessons. From each of these you have profited so much. Yet often, we tend to be so conscious of the struggle we are engaged in that we have no time or energy to think about the mountains we have already climbed triumphantly. Stand back from all that is currently making you think uncomfortable thoughts and take more encouragement from your past successes. The moment just before a vital lesson is learned is always the moment when it seems most as if that lesson will never be learned. .
People aren't always very nice to each other. Sometimes they refuse to care about one another's feelings. They ride roughshod over everyone else's sensitivities and, in the process, they numb themselves so badly as to destroy their own quality of life. Nobody, but nobody, on this planet ever 'gets away' with that behaviour. Where the victims themselves don't get to inflict their revenge, natural justice eventually intervenes. Don't waste time worrying about something that seems unfair. It will come right.
Are you beginning to feel like a pawn in someone else's chess game? Or a tiny piece in a much greater, grander, jigsaw? There may be some validity to that perspective but let us remember that even grand masters respect the value of their smallest and seemingly most trivial foot soldiers. And a jigsaw with even one missing piece can hardly be considered complete. You are making an important contribution to a sensitive situation. It would all be very different without your involvement. Now do your best with pride.
Life has taught you so many lessons. From each of these you have profited so much. Yet often, we tend to be so conscious of the struggle we are engaged in that we have no time or energy to think about the mountains we have already climbed triumphantly. Stand back from all that is currently making you think uncomfortable thoughts and take more encouragement from your past successes. The moment just before a vital lesson is learned is always the moment when it seems most as if that lesson will never be learned. .
People aren't always very nice to each other. Sometimes they refuse to care about one another's feelings. They ride roughshod over everyone else's sensitivities and, in the process, they numb themselves so badly as to destroy their own quality of life. Nobody, but nobody, on this planet ever 'gets away' with that behaviour. Where the victims themselves don't get to inflict their revenge, natural justice eventually intervenes. Don't waste time worrying about something that seems unfair. It will come right.
Are you beginning to feel like a pawn in someone else's chess game? Or a tiny piece in a much greater, grander, jigsaw? There may be some validity to that perspective but let us remember that even grand masters respect the value of their smallest and seemingly most trivial foot soldiers. And a jigsaw with even one missing piece can hardly be considered complete. You are making an important contribution to a sensitive situation. It would all be very different without your involvement. Now do your best with pride.
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