outside the box
with all the pressures here to be 'just so'
i have found the self denial overwhelming and sick making -
my realization is that doing things that I like to do
the way I like them done is so relief giving (when it is my time to do them)
I'm more and more realizing too that I am being asked
here to live in 'a way' of existence and to give myself
relief and the ability to cope with it is that I am learning to
look outside the box of things as I do things. It gives me relief
and a sense of humor - and also the regard yet my take too :)
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my favorite thing about living alone is that satisfaction of having things exactly the way i want them. alas, it's also one of the places i've learned the wisdom of that cliche i love so much: success is getting what you want. happiness is wanting what you get. the success of having things exactly they way i want them didn't provide happiness for very long. the loneliness of isolation kept raining on the parade.
yup, sooking outside the box and a sense of humor are a relief when i let them be enough.
Thanks Arf!