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What gives me the right?

Dec 22, 2007 05:32AM - 5 comments

I was just responding to some posts in the various communities I like to frequent and I thought, "WHO the HELL do I think I am??"  I was sitting there writing.  Spouting advice and it occurred to me that I struggle with the advice I give.  Meaning I have difficulty following my own ideas and suggestions.  How did I get so arrogant to think that someone else would?? Does anything I write make sense?? Does it even matter? I am about to jump off the existential cliff right now.  Like a HUGE tidal wave hitting me and pulling me under I am now suddenly faced with thinking what I say is of no consequence to anyone at anytime for any reason.  Damn!  Humility can be rough.  My innate provider/enabler nature propels me I imagine.  But I was re-reading a post and realized everything I wrote was difficult and harsh.  And the person I wrote it to could read and it and conclude that I'm some crazy freak that doesn't have clue about their life and how dare I tell them what to do.  And that person would be right.  Then again, given the nature of the setting, we can only reveal so much in such a small frame. Struggling to be succint and concise in order to get responses for our pleas of help.  Then theres the picking and choosing of who to respond to like some demi-god of who's sicker or who's better. I could go on and on and on about these feelings I am having. The abrupt nature of realizing that I am just a blip on a screen, paper having more worth than myself.  I hate that.  Self-sabotage.  I think I am motivated by my own experience though.  I reached out for help and there was none.  I called on people and they didn't respond.  I remained alone in my terror, my illness, myself.  And it was misery physically, spiritually, mentally etc.  And it has made me cold.  I have barriers now that may never fade or break.  I don't even begin to know how to change that yet I sit here espousing advice to others.  Not fixing myself.  How frustrating and embarassing. And all too human.  Maybe I made a super secret pact with myself in my darkest moments to never turn my back on someone who feels like I did.  Maybe I want to rescue someone from my fate so I can justify my suffering. How horribly martyr like of me. I am ashamed.  But my intentions are sincere and that is my dilemma. My honest heart expressing itself anonymously in my posts. But feeling guilty for it.  I even feel bad that the grammar of this entry is soo visibly poor but its a direct reflection of where I am, how I feel.  Fragmented, noncohesive and rambling.

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by allaboutmary, Dec 22, 2007 05:50AM
You are being way to hard on yourself. Giving people advice and encouragement helps both yourself and others. You are so not alone. We all are just trying to relate to others with the same problem.  You are helping others. Keep posting.  Be good to yourself.    Mary

by lovebuckets10, Dec 22, 2007 07:15AM
I think you are being to hard on yourself, but I do think your right about your points. After reading this, I think so much more of you. At first I did get that about you "who the hell" but now its like wow.. she is a person just like me so I need to take a dose of  humility for even thinking that about others. We all just have to get through this.

by lizzie09, Dec 22, 2007 10:47AM
We are all the like you. We love to give advice to help others but never look in the mirror.  Please do not be so hard on yourself.  There are so many people that think just like you including me.  We wonder how we got here in the first place.  I always say this is not the life I chose and why am I suffering?  What did I do that was so wrong to suffer so much. Please if you need to get it all out this is the place and I will talk with you anytime :)

by 1234betterlife, Dec 24, 2007 10:55PM
i understand exactly how you feel. i can totally relate to your post. i have sat there staring at what i just wrote and thought exactly the same thing. sometimes choosing to write...sometimes not. picking, choosing, advising. yes, makes sense to me.

by uvlvrebel, Dec 25, 2007 01:05AM
what gives you the right is the common thread of addiction we all share. I feel that not all posts are responded to because we can not relate to the problem OR because we have nothing that readily comes to mind to say.  and this fact is OK because of the common "addiction problem" we all have, our 'mush brains' aren't working up to par yet.  your post now just helped others because "someone identified with your exact feelings/state of mind".  if there weren't people extolling advice without heeding thier own words, we'd have never developed an idiomatic expression for the practice, "Do as I say, not as I do."

And I'm sorry I wasn't there to help you with whatever you originally posted... I'm here now though, wanna repost? :-)

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