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Thoughtful Thursday: Personal Worth Edition
>> Thursday, March 25, 2010
This will be short, but something has been bugging me and has me wondering... Why do strong, independent people (including myself) let others determine our feelings of personal worth? Meanwhile, the other person may or may not have a flipping clue that they have this sort of power. It's all brought about by ourselves, our feelings of inadequacy and our desire to be loved... We focus these feelings on a person (or multiple people) and we put them on a pedestal as the judge(s) of our worth.
Why, oh why, do intelligent people do this? And how do we overcome this?
All this internal thought and turmoil has led to a decision on my part to purge myself of toxic relationships. Even if they're only toxic because of my own fault. Don't worry, there's no major revelation coming...I just have a few relationships that need to end because of these reasons.
Life is so complicated!
3 comments:
Because we have good hearts & we want to make people happy, but it's so easy to be guilted into it by people whose intentions are not as caring or reciprocated. It's a short trip from genuine caring to being manipulated & taken for granted...and a much longer trip back.
that's a great question and if i knew the answer i would totally ket you in on the secret. good luck!
ugh...same problem here. so frustrating. I axed a few of those toxic people off my Facebook just the other day. that's a start.
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