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Sharings
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
PathStep 1 Compassion hearts72 Forum posts33 Forum upvotes34 Current upvotes34 Age GroupAdult Last activeApril, 2026 Member sinceApril 1, 2026
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Pen Pal
Pen Pals / by Sharings
Last post
 April 9th
...See more Good day everybodies, I would like to try this pen-pal idea and see where it might take you and me. Hopefully (optimistically as I do!) towards some introspective connection with depth to explore ourselves, life, the world and somethings about somethings n' everythings. God knows, there may be a therapeutic doing and undoing, a healing after opening wounds, or (pessimistically if you do...) a permanent injury to be ever-nursed henceforth with a wish we had not ever ever talked! I am here and do intend for the first, and you're welcome to reply if so or not so too.  
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Entry 2 - Shrinking and Striking
Journals & Diaries / by Sharings
Last post
 April 4th
...See more Entry 2 - Shrinking and Striking I shrink in his presence, I feel like a boy again, only to become combative and destructive when nettled and roused - hard to find a middle way. Inhibited, stifled. Why am I like this? Why not show them the full extent of your character and potential? They would enjoy my happiness but I feel like I shouldn't let them enjoy my happiness or take pleasure in it, especially because of past hurt unacknowledged.
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What do you find comforting during tough times?
General Support / by Sharings
Last post
 April 3rd
...See more What novels, poems, paintings, films, songs, quotes or videos do you find comforting during tough times?
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Starting my Journey - Why?
Journals & Diaries / by Sharings
Last post
 April 2nd
...See more It seems vain to keep a journal or speak about my problems or feelings with someone when relative to any global suffering my problems seem like exaggerations. I make that argument against myself, or maybe for myself. Some of those problem I've realised have real weight and a bearing on my life, when others seem on the surface or after digging a manufactured problem. Some of these a result of, like my childhood ones (of course), my weakness or adult aloofness then/now to understand or process what was truly happening around me: intentions, context, relationships and events. Manufactured or not, these problems and their causes - in the moment I do compare my problems to someone else's suffering - I find true relief, an overwhelming release. That release, unfortunately does not and is not enough to carry me and sustain me and fades away eventually. It's quite disappointing in that sense, I don't want to elevate my problems beyond the attention they deserve objectively. But I've only realised recently—the gratitude for my own lot and empathy for others only culminating in temporary relief—that I have to do some real spiritual and psychological work on these problems that won't budge. Those problems or maybe injuries, and hurts that lay in my relationships are ones I had maturely decided no longer mattered, however in some moment of disagreement or unpleasantness with him or her, a flashback in conversation or reflection renews that hurt and injury. I'm angry that I can't put these hurts and injuries aside - surely I had forgiven them so I can enjoy a new relationship that I desire so much without the baggage of old. But no. There was a time I was doing that spiritual work... almost 4 years ago... that was a good, happy self then: more charitable, more integrated and centered. Since then however, I have allowed these problems to accumulate after not attending to the self-work that I was doing, and which I was unsure I should be doing from a moral standpoint. But now they've reached a painful level, and having found no replacement to attend or address them I seek some avenue to work through these again, however self-aggrandizing and inflating it may seem to others (whose evaluations pulls me in every direction). I would be glad now to have some of the peace God blessed me with then; and I would be glad for your judgements and insights and provocations on this journey.
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