I run 7 km in the rain this morning. I’ve had many runs in all kinds of weather—snow, hail, wind, rain, ice—in the last 18 months. I’d made a commitment to run six times a week and to make sure that nothing interferes with it, I decided to run first thing in the morning.
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I woke up feeling sad. My energy was low, melancholic, resigned. There was a heaviness to it, but also a comfort and familiarity. It was a Saturday, the sky was bright, and the day was ahead of me.
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For most of my life, I have been more reliant on the masculine than feminine qualities and characteristics. I’d tell myself that I need to be strong, composed and reliable. I’d favour rationality over intuition when taking decisions.
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Our fears are often future-oriented. We’re worried about an outcome we want to avoid and we’re projecting it into the future—they might reject my offer, I might embarrass myself, I might underperform.
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We often isolate ourselves when we’re hurt. We close ourselves around our suffering, shut the door to the world, and to largely to ourselves, and hide. We don’t allow ourselves to be vulnerable around our issues, because we’re ashamed of whatever we’re going through.
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One of the most insurmountable obstacles to forgiveness is the assumption that it entails accepting the blame ourselves. We find it impossible to absolve someone’s actions because whether we’re consciously aware of it or not there’s the felt sense that if they’re not at fault, then surely we must be.
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Having grown up in a country that has spent the last six centuries battling life and then itself, I was raised to believe that you fight to get to where you want to be in life. And there was pride and virtue attached to it.
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We learn that the harder we pursue the higher our chances of attaining what we’re looking for. But often we find that the more we get the more we want.
To see within is the most beautiful gift we can give ourselves. To not just look, but to truly see. To be with ourselves and honour our reality and who we are in this very moment.
The layers of victimhood go deep and wide. The victim morphs and moulds itself to take on different identities and roles in order to mislead and misrepresent itself.
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