Posted by Sigismund on April 24, 2008, at 3:04:43
In reply to Re: tired of it...**S. TRIGGER** » Sigismund, posted by B2chica on April 23, 2008, at 8:13:43
Sometime we should have a whole thread on being trapped.
I find it interesting from a number of angles.
I suspect the way of life we have makes us prone to it; but then I would.As you get older and fall apart, it gives you more reason to admire the beauty of kids.
FWIW, and I imagine this will annoy people, I think self esteem is the kind of concept only imaginable in an atomised society.
When there was a sense of community you didn't need self-esteem.
Your community suffocated you or supported you.I was listening to an Australian journalist talking about America.
He said that, compared to us, Americans put more effort into their lives.
I assume that means they cope less well with failure.
At the least, they do not make ironic legends out of it.He also said that Americans are more self possessed, and if not possessed by themselves they were possessed by something else, in particular religion.
I only mention these cross cultural things because I am interested in the extent to which our problems are influenced by our context.
>-ya, trapped...suffocating, buried alive.-..she's so perfect sig, i took her out on the swing last night and started crying cuz she's so perfect, i don't understand how someone like her came from me.
-i cant seem to name anything i'm doing right these days, at work or home even with being a mother and my DH reminds me, it seems i'm always doing something wrong.
i agree with what i look at in others, but i can't seem to see any of that or anything worthwhile in me.
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