Trauma Olympics
"To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear." - Mark Nepo In case you were wondering, the title for this post was inspired by a song from my daily discovery, naturally. All I can think about when I read it, is how much complaining we (read I) can fall into when we (I) become consumed with healing. We are (I am) constantly finding new things that are wrong, or need to be healed. It's seemingly neverending. I want to get off that racetrack. And if the gratitude for the good we have fades, well, life can become a pretty miserable place, setting you up for even more unresolved pain and optional suffering. If you're living with someone of a similar bent, life can seemingly become less than. Conversations become a round of "Anyway you can feel, I can feel worser! I can feel anything worser than YOU!" I know, terrible grammar, but anything lesser didn't reflect the Annie Oakley vibe I was trying to capture. So there ...
