Learning to take my own advice...

[tinuvial]

I had an exceptionally challenging day. In the end, the lesson that I learned was that I need to take my own advice. Other people do not know what is best for me, no matter how good their intentions are. In order to become the most evolved beings that we were meant to be, we must first look inward to find our compass. No one is a more perfect you than you. It takes a great deal of strength to be able to drown out the messages of 'other' and follow your heart, but ultimately, that is what we all must do.

For such is the way of the Tao.

Ciao for now.

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[da-diva.livejournal.com]

On a completely different note, I thought about something you wrote the other day:

5) If I offer to help you in some way, and you refuse my generosity, our friendship won't last.

This made me think, once very many years ago, you offered me something for my birthday. Shopping trip? Something or other and I never took you up on it.I've always been highly conscience of appearances in some respects and I think I was afraid that if I accepted your gift that it would give you the impression that I was only your friend because of what I could possibly get out of it. So I decided that I would never bring it up or remind you of it because I wanted you to know that we were friends in spite of such things.

Reading what you wrote made me realize I was a bit selfish and yes, ego-tistical then. You were trying to be nice and genuinely offer me something that at the time you were happy to provide and I didn't understand that.

So, I feel like I owe you an apology for that.

*hugs*

No apology necessary...

[tinuvial.livejournal.com]

I have come to realize that people have trouble accepting generosity in many forms, believing that it requires reciprocation which they do not feel they can provide.

Always know that I come from a place of non-judgement. Things are neither good, nor bad, they simply *are*. I do not necessarily view the end of a friendship as a bad thing... it is what it is. There is an ebb and flow to life... people come and people go.

Of course, one of the things that might bother people is that I do not value any one individual higher than any other. I try to treat all people with kindness, love and respect. Friend and enemy alike.

Being my friend most likely means that I feel I can rely on you to be there during the 'tough' times... and as such, there are very few people I label as 'friend.'