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I think by getting up the courage to believe in myself enough to dispute some of the things I was brought up to think about myself, and to dispute what some other people thought I was.
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Hmmm. I don't think I'm even there yet. When anyone criticizes me I always think they're right. I mean always.
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It developed into a period where my former anxieties seemed to be removed, my thoughts formerly suppressed could flow cleanly, and with that flow of thinking I could understand what other people were doing.
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That certainly sounds good.
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But, this led to rejection (by my therapist) and a devastating breakdown, during which I experienced a lot of things I had only read about in fiction before -- terrible things.
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How could such negative things flow from what very much sounds like such a positive, previous turn of events?
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So I learned that I had a lot of terrible potentialities too, and how people in general can suffer. Finding those things out about myself also enabled me to understand other people.
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Hmmmm. I do agree that there's an immense, IMMENSE amount of suffering out there, in every society. But to my mind there are quite a large number of others out there (a minority, but still appreciable) who, for one of a large number of reasons, aren't suffering, or who are INFLICTING suffering on others!
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Maybe I had to live through some of that, at least in my head, to understand it really.
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Well, I think perhaps you have gone beyond me and know things I don't. Of course, that happens all the time. We're all endowed with different experiences, wisdom and knowledge, and (for me at least) being able to learn from others who, like you, have OTHER experiences, wisdom and knowledge, is the great advantage of living in society and not being, entirely at least, a lighthouse keeper.
Take care. And thanks.
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