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People have always told me things. Even as a child. Secrets. Fears. Horrors. I don't ask, "Hey tell me about the worst thing from your life"... I just somehow am a natural confessor perhaps.
Happened today. One of my acupuncturists asked how I was doing and I told her of my improvements. I then replied, and you?
I have a gathering of tools to help a person decide things for themselves. A favorite is, "If you had a daughter/son in this situation whatever you would want for them or to tell them to do, well you are that parent for yourself and you need to take the advice you would offer your beloved imagined child."
I spent a mild fortune over the years trying to get my head shrunk in order to be the best person to raise a child. Irony that is I never got to have the child to be the recipient of the best version of me. So now I just chose to be the kindest parent to most near everyone. Encourage and congratulate knowing each person is having a hard journey.
I realized that today as my pain from this past year moves away that I am 'only' 56. The queen of England is 93. That could be 40 more years of life ahead. She still rides and that is my goal as well. Being one with another species that chooses to trust is the closest to feeling heaven outside of a Sunday morning in bed.