My last post I mention a former friend that I ran into in the nursery department at Lowes well last night I was told he is getting married this weekend. This made me sad today and triggered a lot of feelings about what I have lost or more importantly who I have lost along the way.
I try hard not to indulge in these thoughts except when I come here. It takes me down the road that I am somehow I am the only person that feels sad and that has suffered loss. It makes me wallow in the idea that something is wrong with me that I am mostly alone. Everyone feels sadness and most people don't get what they want in life.
I think to wallow in the "I am not enough" mind song is something we have to fight.
Today I drowned my sorrow with shopping. I bought more plants and went to a few antique stores looking for containers for my new plants. It was a good distraction but tonight I am facing the feelings of being left out and telling myself stories about how great my life was when I was part of the group. Even though that group doesn't even exist anymore.
These are just stories and it wasn't so great a lot of the time. Life is just like that. I use to believe that there was a destination happiness. With the right person - with the right job - finishing the next project - all those things would bring me permanent happiness. They did bring me many moments of happiness but now I know that life is one day at a time and you just have to work with what is in front of you. Don't visit the past too often or imagine a fantasy future just be where you are now.
I know I am not the person I was before. I can't play the part I use to in hopes that I would be loved by the people I loved. I have only trusted a few people with my heart and it hasn't worked out so good for me. I think I want something that doesn't exist I want to feel safe.
So this is my sad tale for today. Giving into the feelings of loss and accepting that this is my life. I am not unique in my suffering. In fact my life is good and I am content most of time. Even though I may be dead to the people in my past tomorrow I will face another day and play with my new plants.
For me accepting (and really bElIEvIng) that happiness is obtained from within, was one of the hardest to acknowledge, and is one I still have to yank myself back to every time my mind goes astray...
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to believe what 'was' was great when one is in the grasp of loneliness or sadness in the now, and it's one of the biggest lies we would like to believe...
Hugs and love to you, all will be okay....
Thank you for this.
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