A human puddle
“I hate everyone and I hate my life!!”
I’ve been on both sides of this fence…
I’ve been a puddle and, just last week, I got to witness a human puddle.
Yes, it’s that moment when you watch someone totally go down the rabbit hole.
My normally resilient daughter rapidly started deteriorating when a beloved Pokemon card was “lost”. Her typically upbeat self was turning darker and darker.
I recognized this process - that slippery slope when you feel sad, frustrated, and angry and completely lose your ability to function as your usual self.
I love that kids feel free to actually say the thing they’re feeling. Because when I feel that awful, I usually keep it to myself and mumble under my breath. I take it out on other people. But I rarely just come out and say it. That the world sometimes feels unfair. And that just sucks.
Rather than fall prey to the frustration of listening to someone vent (rather loudly while you’re trapped driving), I became an observer. I watched sadness consume my little girl. There was nothing my son or I could do to lift her spirits. So, we listened quietly. We heard her get mad at us, get mad at the city of Chicago, and decide her life was miserable.
It’s easy to discount this as childish, but I’ll bet there are days you feel the downward pull. I’ll bet you have moments where you look at your spouse, your children, your clients/patients and just see someone who doesn’t do enough, complains, is ungrateful, and frustrating. Days when everyone and everything falls short.
Why am I sharing this?
Because I know that you understand that feeling good feels, well, good. But what I think is easy to forget is that there’s an actual cost to not feeling good.
What happens to you? What thoughts do you have? How does feeling low affect how you see other people? What does possibility look like from this vantage point?
Leaving with you food for thought this week:
It matters how you feel. How you feel changes what you think, do, and believe about yourself and other people.
Remember to take care of yourself.
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PS. Rest well knowing that I found the “lost” card…in the book…that was sitting next to her in the car. Thankfully, the world is often kinder than we think it is. =)
