((((((((Gus)))))))) !!! Great posting.

To all on this thread...I had a therapist once in the beginning of therapy (had 45 years of therapy!) who used to call this sort of thinking about myself:

"Stinkin Thinkin"--she actually asked me to leave the session once because I would not stop putting myself down...and I thought, like others here:

"It's only me. I am all alone. No one else has had to live the miserable life I have And, it's everybody elses' fault that I am so miserable."

The way I was "thinking" of myself made me "Special" in my misery...

Her tactics were rough...but I needed someone to knock me off my stubborn pedestal of negative thinking ("stinkinthinkin").....I discovered that I was not "the only one" that miseries I endured in my life were no where near what many others suffered...

As (((Gus))) stated: "{my View of the world and others} was an INTERNAL WORLD VIEW" This was not the way to live.

I am of this world. I am part of civilization. I socialize with others now...I feel compassion, kindness...I give and I take with gratitude today!!

It was a long, DIRTY job to clean up my thinking.....but I did.

" here is a proven recipe for change if you are ready:

Decide to Change.

Decide WHAT to change.

Change what you can when you can.

Praise yourself for changing. "

Yes! the right recipe for living life to the fullest!!! Thank you, Gus, great "recipe"...!!



Pax~~~~~~~~~virago