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Old Jul 25, 2013, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by geez View Post
I wish we could be friends. She has been such a positive part of my life and while she's not the only person in my life she's one of if not the most important person I've ever met in my life. I'm afraid of my feelings. I'm ashamed of my feelings. I'm embarrassed by my feelings. Feelings can hurt
I'd think about friendship; why I have the friends I do. Are they always "such a positive part of my life"? I'd think about feelings, how I don't control them, they just show up like my thoughts. How other people cannot feel my feelings anymore than they can think, hear, or read my thoughts. I'd think about if I were afraid, ashamed, embarrassed by my thoughts and if I let my thoughts hurt me and how thoughts and feelings worked, what their purposes were and how I could use them now to help me.

Whatever I learned form thinking about it all after a day or two, I might write an email to T or I might just keep thinking and watching my feelings flicker like firelight :-) and think about how I would try to talk to T on Tuesday.
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