disconnected sunshine
“You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich or smart. Your success doesn’t take away from anyone else’s. It actually increases the possibility that others can have it too. Your money increases your capacity to give money to others, your joy increases your capacity to give joy to others, and your love increases your capacity to give love to others. Your playing small serves no one. It is a sick game. It is old thinking, and it is dire for the planet. Stop it immediately.” ~ Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth
The sun is shining inside and I can’t hold it in. My thoughts jump from boyfriends that didn’t make the cut to a small tussle I had with a co-worker recently. Somehow they are connected. The middle ground is so hard to find. That place, that magical place, where I can assert myself and people around me don’t find it intimidating. To a large extent, it is why I am shy. There is much more certainty than is proper behind these downcast eyes. But when I unleash her, there are consequences. Everything from being alone on Saturday night to snarky remarks.
I am not trying to boss you.
I have an opinion.
Stating it implies nothing about your worth.
I am not trying to put you in the deep shade.
I am trying to shine.
Shine with me, next to me, grow in my light.
cecilia
Kalanna
Holli
What a wonderful quote! That middle ground IS hard to find.
i’m finding this a very inspiring book! recommended if you’re a woman looking for a feeling of something bigger and spiritual renewal. it’s a bummer that i haven’t been able to get back to it for a couple days.
It is very difficult to strike a happy medium. If you stand up for yourself, people think you are bitchy. If you acquiesce to everyone’s wishes or desires, you find yourself annoying and without a backbone. I hate when I have to be assertive, but sometimes you have to let people know where you stand. Basically, I am shy by nature, but the job I have as a school secretary forces me at times to “bitchy” to the staff because they always want their needs to be met even if they should take care of themselves. How do you strike a happy medium? First, I think everyone who needs to be respectful of one another, and stop being the center of their own universe, but when that doesn’t happen I think you need to have an arsenal of polite things to say that gets your point across.
We are always struggling to learn how to deal better with one another.