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Re: FormerStudentIntern.
Right you are!
posted by
Ciel
on September 10, 2015 at 5:39 AM
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Re: TAPS,
Agreed, stress itself is a killer. Acceptance of reality is not always happy, but it is a healer. Forgiving and letting go of a resentment or anger is healing.
posted by
Ciel
on September 10, 2015 at 5:38 AM
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Re: Kabu,
When I finally quit expecting people to be other than who or what they were, a great load was lifted. Acceptance moved in where a sense of failure had been living. If only we could induce acceptance in others...! But we can only choose it for ourselves. Sometimes we can't heal others' ills, and that we have to accept, too.
posted by
Ciel
on September 10, 2015 at 5:36 AM
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Re: CCT,
I try... It's an ideal to aim for, like so many grand statements. I learned a while ago that I could never get my parents to understand really who I was, and had to accept that: it was time to stop trying to make them see, they were who they were and like everyone, had limits. Getting the Irish to let go, getting the Arabs and Israelis to let go, getting Confederate flag-wavers here in the US to let go... would solve some of the world's ills and let us move ahead to achievement, cooperation, many good things.
That ache--I wonder what else you felt at those moments that might explain it.
posted by
Ciel
on September 10, 2015 at 5:33 AM
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Here is to hoping people will start to take the time to fix matters of today.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 10, 2015 at 5:31 AM
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This is a really good post. It is the healthiest thing to do--forgive and forget. Holding grudges, being angry and resentful, encourage strokes, heartattacks, and even cancer.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 9, 2015 at 11:06 PM
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i try i really try. I love this post and agree with every word. but if I can't just let go and move on then how can the world heal.
posted by
Kabu
on September 9, 2015 at 2:35 PM
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If you can do it Ciel I admire you. It is funny though something happened today and I have a kind of ache in the chest, Last week something happened and I had the ache but I cannot remember what it was. It is not too bad about as big as a hedgehog but not prickly. I don't mind really it sometimes jolts one into a different perspective. I suppose we all have our ways of coping with things , drink and drugs maybe, but as you say the past has gone round the corner and not much that we can do about that.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 9, 2015 at 10:10 AM
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