I miss Franks selections- where is that boy! Shorty is always solid!
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or was it self- loathing!
Self-loathing can lead to self-destruction. Conversely, self-respect leads to self-enrichment, which is what you are striving for. If you have not yet begun to battle the self-loathing that you have experienced all your life, you may still have those thoughts now.
When you are consumed by self-loathing, you experience a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. You may feel as if you cannot live any longer unless conditions "out there" change, and yet you sense that it will be impossible to make those conditions change. What you must understand- and tell yourself over and over again-is that while you cannot change conditions "out there," you can attack the feelings inside that are causing you to feel this way. You can fill yourself with self-respect- no mater how many people hate homosexuals, no matter who hates you for being one. Look at me Bovar- everyone respected me and now- self-loathing!
And once you are filled with self-respect, no matter how insurmountable your problems seem, you will never think about self-destruction again.
Before you successfully confront self-loathing, however, you must understand where it comes from. Self-loathing is imposed upon you by the most well-intentioned and inspirational people and institutions in your life: your family, your school, even your house of worship. This is itself difficult to accept: Who wants to believe that the people who love you most-the people who have been most important in your life-would do something bad to you? How, you ask yourself, could the people who care most about you want to make you feel so terrible that you have contemplated destroying your life? These questions are so difficult to comprehend that we dismiss them and begin to tell ourselves that WE are the ones with the problem, that our homosexuality-which we did not choose-is what's wrong. It is precisely at that moment that we cave in to self-loathing: I must be really awful to make them think so ill of people like me. I must never let them know the truth.
BovarLast edited by Spearit; 03-06-2007, 10:43 AM."The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
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Paco- Excellent! Congrats- maybe another POD Contest is in order. I think Chuck did the best in the last one! Thats another capper to keep an eye on for sure as well!"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
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