There's days when I complain and wallow in self-pity... it's easy to do. I'll compare myself with others and find myself lacking. I've expectations about how my life should be, which aren't always met. I sometimes tried - unsuccessfully - to control things, believing the circumstances would be different. I've discovered that the more I try to make my life conform to my expectations, the more uncomfortable I feel. I realize that my self-pity arises from living in my expectations instead of in the world as it actually is.
When the world doesn't measure up to my expectations, it's often my expectations that need adjusting, not the world. I start by comparing my life today with the way it used to be... developing gratitude. I extend this exercise in gratitude by counting the good things in my life, becoming thankful that the world does not conform to my expectations but actually sometimes even exceeds them. By continuing to further cultivate gratitude and acceptance, what I can eventually expect in the future is more growth, happiness and peace of mind.
I've been given much in life and most has really paid itself off. Gratefully accepting my life - as it is today - frees me from my complaints of self-pity, thank you!
And God asked the feline spirit: "Are you ready to come home?"
"Oh, yes, quite so" replied the precious soul. "and, as a cat, you know I am most able to decide anything for myself."
"Are you coming then?" asked God. "Soon!" replied the whiskered angel. "But I must come slowly for my human mother is troubled. For you see, she needs me, quite certainly."
"But doesn't she understand" asked God "that you'll never leave her? That your souls are intertwined for all eternity? That nothing is created nor destroyed? It just is... forever and ever and ever."
"Eventually she will understand," replied the glorious cat, "for I will whisper into her heart that I am always with her, I just am... forever and ever and ever."
Because you're not in their age-range, or location, or height requirement, or you don't have blonde hair and light colored eyes, or they're racially intolerant, or you're not Brad Pitt or Alec Baldwin, etcetera, etcetera. Then when you finally read through one that isn't superficial... the last line is: Not single/Not looking! If I load a pair on my Beretta would you please shoot me... you could do whatever you want with the second shot!
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If I load a pair on my Beretta would you please shoot me... you could do whatever you want with the second shot!
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