LOL. It’s been a crazy last 48 hours. The last 4 of which I just spent catching up on thee 114 email notifications I had from WordPress AND writing another spiritual blog post. More there in a minute.
The funeral went reasonably well. The priest was mush mouthed and didn’t seem to know the rituals. Maybe it’s a Catholic thing. I think everything has to be exactly by the book. Anyway, short but good ceremony there. A little bit of unspoken conflict back at my parents’ (well, mom’s now) house afterwards, but I’ll spare folks the personal drama.
Realizing how short life can be, along with the more positive experiences on twitter and here have made me more determined to get focused with my writing and a few other resolutions. Not fanatical midlife crisis level or anything, but it all snapped things back into focus.
The spiritual blog post and trigger warning joke above are about the need for people in general, and Empaths specifically to have reasonable boundaries, and how some people use false compassion and guilt tripping to tell others they have no right to said boundaries. It was inspired by post in a followed blog about how “walls don’t work”. The spiritual blog post should have made clear that I do NOT lump the author of that post in said guilt tripper category. They just genuinely don’t believe walls work. The post DID remind me of all the hateful things I’ve seen on the subject by other people though, and how many times I’ve been guilt tripped and manipulated for trying to have boundaries..
So, with that in mind, and wanting to discuss the idea that boundaries of any type are bad, I wrote that post. If you’re interested, take a look. If you’re the type that’s easily offended by anything other than far left views, consider this a trigger warning and avoid it.
The simple premise is that we all need boundaries and walls. People need occasional quiet time, writers need to be able to focus on their work, etc… Walls DO have to have gates to let the good in though, and the only truly evil wall is the one designed to keep people from exiting (ie the Berlin Wall).
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Interesting. I like to think of it as giving people license to certain aspects of my life i must be very careful about who I trust. But, i do feel when it comes to my art. I let all that stuff jlhang out anyone can paint a bowl of fruit it takes courage to shove some fruit in you bum and go dancing down the street. I. Don’t know where I am going with this but I am glad you ate back and refocused
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It’s all good. I *think* I get where you were going. 🙂 It does indeed take courage to be yourself.
Anyway, it would have been OK even if you completely disagreed with me, so long as you were civil about it. 🙂
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So my writing on my phone is horrible sorry for the jibberish geez haha. Civility is what separates us from the animals. Or something
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Nice blog
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It’s been a bit of a mess the week or so. Too much of my personal drama seeping into my posts. Something I’m working on correcting.
Thanks though. 🙂
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Please read my first post
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Please read my first post
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TBH – I’m not a fan of “The Wall” – starting with the incredible cost of the blasted thing. Immigration reform, and better border patrols are more my thing – but it’s OK to agree to disagree. I feel like, as a whole, we’re focusing on issues that can be resolved with civil and rational discourse – but by shouting and screaming at each other. We can do better – we ARE better than that.
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