I just want to thank you again Byz. for all the threads you have been putting up for consideration. It often seems that as I am struggling with the many different puzzles in my life that have somehow gathered together in a daily struggle you have offered up food for ways of positive thought processes.

As I did have a lengthy reply to this topic I had to think about my own struggles with therapy. It was almost as if I somehow knew what I needed to hear and was often disappointed by the inability for most of the therapists to engage me in a positive direction. And to be honest, as I look back now I can see what they did miss and I have some built in cynicism about therapy itself. And that is why I wanted you to understand that while you may have been less than coopertive, you could have still been challenged and helped. And though you may still hold on to some of that cynicism I can see how you have begun to consciously make attempts at your own humbling process. And you have openly conceded that it is very challenging to do so. And I can stand in total agreement with that revelation.

And I do struggle with seeing life as it is and it is far from what I feel it should be. As your quote suggests and it can lend to madness if we allow it to, as life is very challenging in reality.
And that very statement is what can make the cynical part of us to have such a difficult time becoming humble. So what can one do to try to make the most of life, the rest of our lives? Well, we have a choice to either stay cynical for the duration or to agree to embrace our time left to humble us and use our intellectual capacity to accept our own inabilities or errors in our past as well as the errors of others.

Any human being that has made any contributions to mankind has had to go through this humbling process. One person I like to think about is Benjamin Franklin and how he was a good example of addressing other humans and how he aclimated himself beyond restricted perceptions. He would have made a good therapist I think, don't you? Perhaps if while participating in our goal for humbleness we remember that hat he wore while while politicing with the French. LOL

Open Eyes