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Came across this looking for peace

hopingtobecomeabutterfly
hopingtobecomeabutterfly

It made me feel better. Thought I'd share... Slightly adapted extract from a post on Facebook.. 


"We grow to be the people we never had. We become the opposite, with an intense amount of empathy and we love fiercely. It is a painful awakening, but we were handed this circumstance to be the compassion that is lacking. Keep your head up - it never had anything to do with you."

Alice0
Alice0
That's a nice quote.
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
Really, really well put.....xo
LillyPotter
LillyPotter
xo
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Wow! Just yesterday I posted here that on purpose I set out to become a mentor to a couple of students of mine because I never had a parental mentoring figure as a kid. My folks were mentally ill, and just not capable of that sort of thing. It's just as this quote said, I was their kid but their mentally ill behavior toward had nothing to do with them as parents or me as their child. Forgiveness wasn't just about them, but rather mostly about forgiving myself for wasting years believing it to be so, but how was a kid to know?
LillyPotter
LillyPotter
you're such a great mentor on here as well, Muj xo
LillyPotter
LillyPotter
without going into the needing healing and the ongoing things we each deal with,

i have often felt so blessed, to have this extra empathy that we do get. the insight we have now, that we use to care for one another, in ways we couldn't if we didn't have it.

it does sometimes seem as if "...we were handed this circumstance to be the compassion that is lacking."

thank you for this, hoping xo
Beatha
Beatha
beautiful <3
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