My horoscope by others is intimidating...but truthful.
How much more can I 'bind others' with my boundaries?!?
I spend far too much time inside my head these days. It's becoming my safe haven, yet it is a scary landscape anymore.
With all the cynicism, prejudice, arrogance, one-up-manship, and a myriad of other negative behaviors it would be easy to wallow in a sense of self-deprecation and feeling worthless if I were to compare myself to others.
Thank goodness I don't. Compare myself to others that is. Contrast is a more apt description. I may contrast my station in life with another but I do not compare.
In doing the best I can with what I've been assigned, while taking responsibility for my choices, I've long ago found resolution in choosing a simplistic lifestyle.
I don't mind feeling alone within the crowd. When others encroach on my space I simply move away in another direction. I no longer have room for 'other's stuff'.
It could become quite confusing if I were to let it be so...to remain supportive while avoiding some individuals.
I find it very amusing to be called out for the very things I detest in others.
No longer do I feel the deep need to explain myself, prove myself, nor defend myself for having figured out what I needed to be me...and wear it well.
In the sane way we can lead a horse to water, yet cannot make it drink, we can offer to listen to another, offer feedback and support, yet cannot expect them to help themselves reach a similar plain on which I rest.
There is some noise larger that calls me to act besides their constant chatter that only serves to wear me down rather than lift me up in validation.
Some call binding a witch's act...I say shoring up my boundaries so I can swim in my wellbeing is magic indeed!
