Something I realized today: I have finally grown up enough to figure out that when someone who gives you feedback makes you feel like crap, it probably doesn't mean that you actually are as stupid as they make you feel. Instead, they're probably just good at making people feel like crap.
Mantras
- I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke - Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre - I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you—Nobody—Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!
How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a Frog—
To tell one's name—the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!
--Emily Dickinson
Be Nice to Others
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That's a good point. Nod nod.
Posted by: idwsj | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 10:27 PM
LIKE.
Posted by: michelle | Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 03:24 PM