Today, on the way home, i pondered the effects people have as they enter and exit our lives. They stamp their footprints on our brains, our memory, in our hearts and sometimes on our souls. If all goes well, they will enrich us and bring out our best qualities, like Michelangelo releasing the sculptures from their marble confines. If it goes badly, they will diminish us, eroding our spirits, wasting our resourses, draining our energies, leaving us dry and unfulfilled. Physically, people can probably live without each other. Mentally and emotionally, it's a different matter.
What do we want from life? The stock answers are: peace of mind, health, love, fulfillment, harmony, good fortune and mind blowing sex. Well, the last one only probably refers to me. But, what we really need to enjoy nonetheless, a tranquil existence; self-sufficiency, which is our life defined by our actions, and NOT those of others. At the risk of overcoming all Self-Help Manuel, i personally think that we can't reply on other people for our happiness, it is not their responsibility.
It may be a soapy song lyric, but learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all and to me, the hardest to achieve. I hate myself so much that at times i wished i had the guts to kill myself. We look in the mirror and fail to see the big picture. We see that we are too short, too ugly, too heavy, bad hair, bad skin, big bum, small tits and bemoan these physical facts without looking within to see what really counts. Then the criticism would really begin, for who wants to admit to being guilty to any of the Deadly Sins, let alone all seven?
Now now softies, what say you?