Comments | bigsockgrrl: self care vs. caring for others

bigsockgrrl

self care vs. caring for others

Feb 12, 2008 16:02

A friend of mine wants to stop being a martyr. He said, "I realize that I'm tired of drowning and I would never make those choices again ( Read more... )

friends, response, community, self_care

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my belly posted this as I was re-reading it bigsockgrrl February 13 2008, 01:26:32 UTC

I guess that makes my choice clear for the moment: time to get off the computer!

jstray February 15 2008, 08:45:34 UTC

"When I figure out which things to say yes to and which to say no to, everything would be peachy keen fabulous."

Yup. I have that problem too ;)

Also, to me it seems like you spend a lot of time defining what you are NOT. You're not straight, white, monogamous, vanilla, rich, etc. And you've certainly spent energy studying and thinking about all the disadvantages that go with this.

I feel like there's a part of you I don't get to see, at least not on the public internet. What are you FOR, as opposed to against?

What do you want out of life?

Not to get deep or anything.

the quick response bigsockgrrl February 16 2008, 02:36:42 UTC

Okay, I'll try to explain I am about in another post, but here's a quick response ( ... )

bigsockgrrl February 16 2008, 21:05:49 UTC

Aha! I posted a bit about this recently here:

http://bigsockgrrl.livejournal.com/76749.html

Looking for something else and realizing... bigsockgrrl February 16 2008, 21:23:45 UTC

I've posted about my current intentions a lot. I haven't been great with tagging; I'm working on it. Some relevant tags: vocation, service, home, identity... I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them at the moment. Perhaps you've just happened upon entries where I'm working on externalizing my anger and missed the others?