At what age did you feel the happiest with yourself?
Has there been a period in your life where you felt happiest, confident in yourself or that you had it all together?
41-45, F
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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
[quote] Happiest with myself [/quote]
That's an interesting question.
I think you go through certain periods in life that challenge you beyond your own comfort zones and into other people's world's.
There you have to battle other forces that have no interest in making you feel comfortable.
In fact you can often get the impression that you are the one likely to be scapegoated for their system failures or operatives failures because no one in charge wants to take any form of responsibility.
So you take all this in, try and ask the right questions and eventually come to the conclusion that maybe you're not the terrible employee/Parent/patient/etc.
And gradually your belief in yourself grows
If you're smart you steer clear of anything that allows a person in authority to use cop-out statements absolving them of responsibility.
"Oh we don't do that anymore".
"We're changing our terms...that we signed up to"
etc.
But it takes time; belief in yourself and the sad realization that people and organisations that you think are supposed to serve you, are actually self-serving complex and very fragile to the point of being close to useless at the point where you need them most.
That's an interesting question.
I think you go through certain periods in life that challenge you beyond your own comfort zones and into other people's world's.
There you have to battle other forces that have no interest in making you feel comfortable.
In fact you can often get the impression that you are the one likely to be scapegoated for their system failures or operatives failures because no one in charge wants to take any form of responsibility.
So you take all this in, try and ask the right questions and eventually come to the conclusion that maybe you're not the terrible employee/Parent/patient/etc.
And gradually your belief in yourself grows
If you're smart you steer clear of anything that allows a person in authority to use cop-out statements absolving them of responsibility.
"Oh we don't do that anymore".
"We're changing our terms...that we signed up to"
etc.
But it takes time; belief in yourself and the sad realization that people and organisations that you think are supposed to serve you, are actually self-serving complex and very fragile to the point of being close to useless at the point where you need them most.
lovelychicadee · 41-45, F
well said@Picklebobble2