--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put yourself in the friend's shoes: Someone is very angry and hurt > and expressing that anger and hurt and the response is literally: its > OK, I still love you. > > How would YOU feel?
I don't generally respond well to hypotheticals, because they're not- here-now, but I'll give it a shot. If I were Rick's friend I would be feeling what he feels -- anger, hurt, betrayal and so on. So? All to the good. When I've been in that space, there's generally not much the other can say or do to woo me out of it. Nor should they feel obligated to try. I am feeling it because I want to -- because I need to. That's my emotional "weather" at that moment. Being given the space to feel what I need to feel, and to be reassured that Love remains regardless -- that's a good thing, and something I have rejoiced to know when my own deep-held concepts and attachments were being shaken to their very foundations. In this case, anger, hurt and betrayal are precisely what I *should* be feeling, as these are signposts that I have placed my eggs in a conceptual basket that happened to shake simply by Rick's standing for his own Truth. Good for Rick, and my eventual thanks to him. Any conceptual basket and all of its eggs are going to fall sooner or later. If I were not ready to have the basket shook, trust me; it wouldn't have shaken. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
