Sometimes, when I’m with her, I find myself in a place that I have to remind myself that I am, in fact, human. I don’t know if it’s my own inability to face that reality, or whether she’s simply putting me there, but I know that it’s hard to keep my own self-awareness when I’m with her.
In my experience, kate is one of the most honest people Ive ever met. No matter how many times she lets us know that I’m not the only one who feels like crap, she always tells us it’s okay. And I don’t mean that it makes her feel better about herself. I mean that she takes the time to make sure we understand that she doesn’t mean to make us feel this way.
I know how hard it is for people to accept that the person they feel like crap with is no longer with them, so I appreciate her willingness to be honest with us about this. At the same time, Im not sure if it would be fair to assume that she thinks we are just going through phase one of another long period of self-awareness.
I think people who feel bad about themselves can take the time to read books, or look at pictures of other people, or talk with experts. Maybe they take the time to work through the feelings they have about them rather than just acting out. I think it is important to realize that you are not alone. Many people are in similar situations and have to make changes in their lives. We are not saying that it is okay to take the time to be unhappy, or that you should be miserable.
When we are happy, we feel like we are the center of the universe. We are like a child who wants love. We just feel that way. But the more that we feel that way, the more that we want to escape. And the more that we want to escape, the more that we crave food. When we feel full, we don’t really taste any more. This is called “compassion fatigue.
There is an old Chinese proverb that you can say with a straight face. It goes like this: “The moment a person begins to feel the pain of loneliness, he becomes the father of compassion.” Or the other way around, “When a person feels the pain of loneliness, he becomes the mother of compassion.” Our society has been encouraging us to be happy for so long, that we have actually forgotten how to be happy, or have become too busy to be happy.
The problem is that our society seems to have forgotten how to be happy. The reason is that we’ve lost our connection with our own emotions. We’ve become so busy being happy that we’ve lost our ability to feel. The problem is that while we’ve stopped feeling, we’ve stopped feeling good about ourselves.
That’s why a lot of people want to take their time to get happy—to feel good about themselves. But there is a problem with this because while being happy may be nice, it’s not going to fix the world we live in. Because weve become so happy that we want to fix the world as much as we want to fix ourselves, weve also forgotten how to be happy.
It is true that happiness doesn’t fix the world, but it is also true that being happy doesn’t make a person happy. Happiness is a state that occurs in a particular life, and is not something that can be fixed. Happiness is a state of mind, not a state of body. Happiness is something we can choose to have, not something we can fix. This is a concept that I think weve forgotten, and one that we have to come back to.
