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Just because I've been down...
...doesn't mean I'm out.
Far from it.
You see, that's what I've been reminded of lately, and about time, too.
I survived a Middle School friend's sudden rejection due to her defection to boy-chasing when I was still too busy being a kid (silly me, for having a different growing-up timetable). I survived pathetically immature harassing Junior High males who demonstrated to me how vicious fellow humans could be. I survived one sardonic college peer who thought she was so very clever that she could inform me of my gauche attributes (as her way of trying to chase me away so I'd not interfere with the emotionally vampiric relationship she wanted to form with my then best college chum - I BTW am still friends with the college chum to this day - the other girl is long gone). I survived a BF who shall we say really wasn't 'relationship-ready'(IE - he became abusive), and who called me a 'coward' for walking away from abuse. Thank you - I wear the lable 'coward' with pride, then. I survived a couple of might-have-been friends from a few years back who were much too creatively running away from their own pasts to be healthily objective about their present reality and who alternately turned away from, then tried to impress their world-view on the rest of what used to be a larger group of friends. I survived a laissez-faire, verbally-abusive former boss.
I continue to survive parents who at times are too busy seeing the world - including their children - through the lens of their own insecurities to see terribly clearly.
And I'll also survive this present stressful period of over-work/over-scheduling. When I figure out which direction is the best for me to go...I'll go there.
...doesn't mean I'm out.
Far from it.
You see, that's what I've been reminded of lately, and about time, too.
I survived a Middle School friend's sudden rejection due to her defection to boy-chasing when I was still too busy being a kid (silly me, for having a different growing-up timetable). I survived pathetically immature harassing Junior High males who demonstrated to me how vicious fellow humans could be. I survived one sardonic college peer who thought she was so very clever that she could inform me of my gauche attributes (as her way of trying to chase me away so I'd not interfere with the emotionally vampiric relationship she wanted to form with my then best college chum - I BTW am still friends with the college chum to this day - the other girl is long gone). I survived a BF who shall we say really wasn't 'relationship-ready'(IE - he became abusive), and who called me a 'coward' for walking away from abuse. Thank you - I wear the lable 'coward' with pride, then. I survived a couple of might-have-been friends from a few years back who were much too creatively running away from their own pasts to be healthily objective about their present reality and who alternately turned away from, then tried to impress their world-view on the rest of what used to be a larger group of friends. I survived a laissez-faire, verbally-abusive former boss.
I continue to survive parents who at times are too busy seeing the world - including their children - through the lens of their own insecurities to see terribly clearly.
And I'll also survive this present stressful period of over-work/over-scheduling. When I figure out which direction is the best for me to go...I'll go there.
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Go, girl!
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You go gurl! You will survive!
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