An Inspiration of Therapy, Friendship & Love
From trelali (I only put the words together for her :P)
You will write a list of the five things you think are best about yourself, then others reply with their top five things about you. And by doing the list of five for the first person, those people are encourage to take it one step further and make the list of five themselves on their own journal now and get other people's takes on them.
1. I believe wholeheartedly and compassionately both the best in, and wish for the best for, everyone. Those I know, those I've never met, and even those who've treated me the very worst. Unequivocally. Unconditionally.
2. I have dedicated my life to other people, and while often I talk about how much that is for them, it's also about me. I lead to serve others, I heal to serve others, I write to serve others, I comfort to serve others, and I consider it holy, amazing, miraculous. And sometimes, for a brief second, I can step outside myself and love me for it.
3. I have had a wealth of knowledge on my spiritual community from a very young age. I wouldn't consider this the same thing as calling myself wise, but I know a lot of people, history, and have almost two (wibbly-wobbly, early years only half counting, three) decades of experience with how things have been run in the groups, camps, and circles of my city. It gives me a lot to say, or even simply think, when people ask my opinion on things.
4. I am learning, often by both leaps and bounds and by tripping over both my left feet, how to be more frugal and wise about the people I allow inside of me, my life, of making smart decisions, and keeping healthy boundaries. Of learning it's really not contradictive (to love, forgive and have compassions for people unconditionally as themselves) to expect the people in my life, who get to have the title friend or family or lover, to treat me with both love and respect.
5. I am incredibly, sincerely, for better and worst, to fault honest. It's all over my journal. It's the reasons I call it, now and again, my glass house. Most of my world doesn't have filters at all, and though there many I use none of them often. I am an open book and literally will give most people the deepest, clearest, most self-aware (to that moment) answer to questions.
This was surprisingly hard, and I've had it waiting on me for days on days. And I found myself tapping my fingers trying to find things, or having to erase lines that were me unbraided myself.
You will write a list of the five things you think are best about yourself, then others reply with their top five things about you. And by doing the list of five for the first person, those people are encourage to take it one step further and make the list of five themselves on their own journal now and get other people's takes on them.
1. I believe wholeheartedly and compassionately both the best in, and wish for the best for, everyone. Those I know, those I've never met, and even those who've treated me the very worst. Unequivocally. Unconditionally.
2. I have dedicated my life to other people, and while often I talk about how much that is for them, it's also about me. I lead to serve others, I heal to serve others, I write to serve others, I comfort to serve others, and I consider it holy, amazing, miraculous. And sometimes, for a brief second, I can step outside myself and love me for it.
3. I have had a wealth of knowledge on my spiritual community from a very young age. I wouldn't consider this the same thing as calling myself wise, but I know a lot of people, history, and have almost two (wibbly-wobbly, early years only half counting, three) decades of experience with how things have been run in the groups, camps, and circles of my city. It gives me a lot to say, or even simply think, when people ask my opinion on things.
4. I am learning, often by both leaps and bounds and by tripping over both my left feet, how to be more frugal and wise about the people I allow inside of me, my life, of making smart decisions, and keeping healthy boundaries. Of learning it's really not contradictive (to love, forgive and have compassions for people unconditionally as themselves) to expect the people in my life, who get to have the title friend or family or lover, to treat me with both love and respect.
5. I am incredibly, sincerely, for better and worst, to fault honest. It's all over my journal. It's the reasons I call it, now and again, my glass house. Most of my world doesn't have filters at all, and though there many I use none of them often. I am an open book and literally will give most people the deepest, clearest, most self-aware (to that moment) answer to questions.
This was surprisingly hard, and I've had it waiting on me for days on days. And I found myself tapping my fingers trying to find things, or having to erase lines that were me unbraided myself.