August 19th, 2009

in praise of feeling bad about myself



i'm not feeling so well for the entire week. physically, mentally and emotionally.
i might have worried myself sick, literally. i feel bad and i feel bad about feeling bad.
i'm worried about the future. i don't know if i really want what i want. or maybe i just don't know if i want to give up who i am now to get what i want. maybe i'm too comfortable. maybe i want everything now. maybe im listening and buying a lot of stories from totally opposite people, different people with totally different values...so who am i going to listen to?  (i hear myself saying, listen to yourself. but who is me? am i not a collection of others? but you have a choice on who you're going to listen to...maybe you're just afraid of the consequences? you can't have everything you know...hanggang ngayon pa ba yan pa rin ang umaagaw ng tulog mo???)

i rarely expose my negative feelings and sentiments publicly. one reason is i don't want to infect people.
another reason is that i don't want others to have a reason to not like me. i feel like that if you're sad and confused
people won't like you much or they like you less than when you're bubbly and happy and well grounded. yes, that's how much i value people's opinion.

But this time, i'm exposing myself a bit. it's part of this opening up project and liking myself project.

As Brian Biro said, "No one can be loved until they let themselves be seen.
No one can be seen until they learn to love themselves."

what is there to hide anyways? i think we emit a scent physically, psychologically and emotionally by the way we carry ourselves, our countenance, our collective actions and just how we are. our results in the areas of our lives, others can see. and the non-results areas of our lives, others can see too. so how can we hide from others who we really are?

most especially, how can we hide ourselves from ourselves. we bring ourselves everywhere. And so i let myself be seen as a practice for myself.  To show me to myself that I love myself no matter what.

Posted by wxyz at 10:11 PM | 2 smile
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Comment posted on August 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 AM
don't worry..ur not the only one who has those thoughts..
it happens every now and then
Comment posted on August 22nd, 2009 at 12:36 AM
live.love.laugh