Responses & Responsibility

Cutting ties with people who hurt you isn’t enough; you must also cut ties with the version of you, who allowed that treatment to go on. — Sourced from @synchronistic

If I tried to explain the word change and how it comes about for us, I’d say the tiniest building block would be our response. How we respond on a daily basis to every thing that takes place ends up shaping our lives. This includes what’s going on inside of us. An interesting way I learned this was one particular sunny day that I was trying to enjoy when I started to hear my thoughts. They toed the line somewhere between non helpful and extremely non helpful. They were distracting me, scaring me, worrying me, and taking my joy from me so I decided to witness them and then shove them to the backseat of my imaginary car. I was not going to let them drive. I was in the driver’s seat and in charge of steering the wheel, so if I allowed them to distract me they would happily take over and chaos would reign! Yes, I can’t control the fact that they pop up every now and again but I can control how I respond and whether or not I give these thoughts any headway. “Owning it” becomes especially important when I decide to take responsibility for my response to the hard and messy shit that seems impossible to get through. And I do my best to practice keeping it in line with the wisdom I have gained over the years. Because we all know it’s one…