namulogy
@Eriberi
26 okur puanı
Aralık 2020 tarihinde katıldı
‘If you want to be happy, you mustn’t fear the following truths but confront them head-on: one, that we are always unhappy, and that our sadness, suffering and fear have good reasons for existing. Two, that there is no real way to separate these feelings completely from ourselves.’– Une Parfaite Journée Parfaite by Martin Page
It’s like you’re running inside a hamster wheel. You try to get out of your depression through your efforts but fail, and this continuing cycle of trying and failing feeds back into the original depression.
Emotions have something like passageways, and if you keep blocking your bad emotions, you end up blocking your good emotions as well.’
I managed a tremulous smile. “It’s just life is so much harder than I thought it would be,” I confessed. “I thought if I had a plan and followed the rules, it would be easy.”
“There’s a difference between taking care of someone because you love them and taking care of someone because you want them to love you,” she continued. There was a big difference. One of them was genuine and giving, and the other was manipulative, controlling.