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RE: Excuse Me, Do These Emotions Belong to You?
This is a beautifully written post, and I love the images you have chosen to adorn it - so appropriate as well as poignant and beautiful.
You sound like such an empathetic soul. It's such a shame that your partners haven't been the right ones for you as you clearly have so much to give emotionally, without needing to be a bloody sponge for other people's dirty emotional water. Ugh.
Those of us who can feel a lot tend to be targets for people who would like someone else to process their toxins for them. I have learned I don't want to be others’ liver.
Great analogy!!
I actually find it extraordinary that people are so OUT of touch with their emotions they really don't see the affect they have on others. xx
Thank you so much. I am just learning to value myself. I always had my value tied to my accomplishments, but now I know it is tied to my soul.
I thought of that analogy as I was writing this. I was thinking of a friend I used to have who didn't want to ever feel anything icky, and I was realizing she used me to process her shit for her. Glad that's over!
I think others are so out of touch because it's too painful to see, so they just cover their eyes and ears and lalalalala, I'm not listening! In any case I'm just super glad to figure out I don't have to be involved. Bless em and send em on their way!
Yes, far better to say 'there there' and back away slowly. Even Patanjali says it in the yoga sutras - there's people you should spend time with and people you shouldn't!
Exactly. Some I am content to love from far away.