"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."
- Hal Borland
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It’s not even self-hate, it’s like self-negation, or as I say above, self-rejection.
But there’s also a lack of deservedness, worthiness, suitability.
Also a sense of unloveability, undesirability, unlikeability.
I feel like a thesaurus of inadequacy. A poster boy for “not good enough”.
Sigh. 😞
Every so really not so very often, I am overwhelmed with a sense of vividly unovercomeable aloneness.
Not loneliness, but a sense I don’t fit with anyone, can’t fit with anyone, will never fit with anyone, and even don’t really deserve to fit with anyone.
I’m not even looking to, right now – my god, I can’t even!
It’s been like this since I was a teenager and I started to think maybe I’d like to be with someone some day, that maybe it would actually be nice.
And it’s certainly not constant, or necessarily related to any individual (it sometimes was as a teenager), or any event.
But it feels so despairing, so final, so…bleak, that I get overwhelmed and teary.
And that’s what happened when I went for a short walk this evening, I just got swamped and overwhelmed by that feeling.
Just typing this is making me teary.
I think this might be a reflection of my response to childhood trauma. An über-rejection of myself by seeing myself as eminently rejectable by others.
I don’t like it, but I’m not really sure what I can do about it.
At least it’s not a constant feeling, but, boy, is it a strong one when it hits. 😞
A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
Nothing can be plainer than that each nation gives to its god its peculiar characteristics, and that every individual gives to his god his personal peculiarities.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
You may safely go to school with hope; but ere you marry, should have learned the mingled lesson of the world: that dolls are stuffed with sawdust, and yet are excellent play-things; that hope and love address themselves to a perfection never realised, and yet, firmly held, become the salt and staff of life; that you yourself are compacted of infirmities, perfect, you might say, in imperfection, and yet you have a something in you lovable and worth preserving; and that, while the mass of mankind lies under this scurvy condemnation, you will scarce find one but, by some generous reading, will become to you a lesson, a model, and a noble spouse through life. So thinking, you will constantly support your own unworthiness, and easily forgive the failings of your friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”
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I not only see myself in the mirror, I feel comfortable as myself in public. This is relatively recent. Perhaps it is the HRT? Maybe it is my hair and makeup? It might actually be my dress and poise! Or is it that I only use rose colored self-delusional glasses?
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“Wait a moment,” said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw.
He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks … and then he scratched his nose twice, and stood up.
“Yes,” said Winnie-the-Pooh.
“I see now,” said Winnie-the-Pooh.
“I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 3 “Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting” (1926)
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You’ll never outperform your belief system. The moment you raise your belief, your results will follow. #Belief #SelfImage #Growth
You’ll never outperform your belief system. The moment you raise your belief, your results will follow. #Belief #SelfImage #Growth
You’ll never outperform your belief system. The moment you raise your belief, your results will follow. #Belief #SelfImage #Growth
Your results will never go beyond your self-image. If you want to change your life, start by changing how you see yourself. #SelfImage #Mindset #Growth
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel (b. 1954) British writer [pen names Nicholas Adams, Rick North, J.P. Trent, John Vincent]
Timewyrm: Genesys, ch. 10 [The Doctor] (1991)
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And be careful about calling them Common People. Nobody wants to be called Common People, especially common people.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1925-06-21), “Weekly Article”
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is pleasant, the latter unpleasant. It is therefore wise to be not unduly conceited, though also not too modest to be enterprising.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 113 (1955)
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“I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said Pooh, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”
“You’re the Best Bear in All the World,” said Christopher Robin soothingly.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 3 “Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting” (1926)
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Amir and Rodolfo explore the power of language in shaping our self-images, emphasizing that true identity goes beyond labels. 🧐 Shiv offers insightful perspectives on navigating this complex topic. #SelfImage https://scrollbots.com/?t=1758990678
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