Little “jewels” like this one slip into my life, of course, there are a lot more and more often with the advent of the internet! But I am grateful for each of the little pearls. I am never sure exactly which ones are really based in fact, but most of them are worth thinking about!
This one was surprising, and perhaps even answered a ton of my own questions. This is not to say I am blaming my parents for my own shortcomings. I suspect they did what they felt they needed to do. Although I will confess the focus of their attention was rarely on the children. A very unhealthy mother that left me when I was young followed by a second round of parenting that only doled out attention when it benefitted their social standing, or we had misbehaved. I was personally accused of breaking up my family, not being pretty enough, too fat, and constantly told I was to do nothing but be quiet and stay out of the way, I had caused way too many problems for them already. All may have been true, but in today’s world what I endured may have been classified as emotional abuse. I have battled self-worth my entire life, but not absolutely certain that most of us do not have some form of that “demon” working in our backgrounds!
The long and the short of this quote may be just recognizing where my raging lack of self-worth may have come from, realizing there is nothing that can be done to undo it and finding the courage to live in the NOW and celebrate all of the good I have accomplished on my own. I think we all may be, to a certain degree, products of our pasts…but realizing we can do something about it is wonderfully empowering!
"More-o-That" Eric Bibb
Little “jewels” like this one slip into my life, of course, there are a lot more and more often with the advent of the internet! But I am grateful for each of the little pearls. I am never sure exactly which ones are really based in fact, but most of them are worth thinking about!
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