Day 8: No listening.
I’m kind of surprised that it’s day 8 already. In the past sometimes it seemed like 8 days was a long time in a cycle.
Had some more pangs of wishing I had some legit friends, like genuine connections. Driving around I feel like I am just going through more healing. But at the same time, I do noticed that we just vibe with some people and don’t vibe with others, so it may not be a matter of more healing. Just focusing on the right people, opportunities etc.
It was also good to see in another thread, khan I think, that some people find that they seem to repel women. It came with the insight that it may very well be because the women are in committed relationships and they’d like to protect those situations. Thus leading to their reactions of trying to avoid you because you’re a sexual threat, just in a way that the best way to deal with that kind of aura/temptation is to just completely avoid it.
I was listening to a short audio book Let It Go: Manifest What You Really Want by Giving Up and Allowing. It actually had some good insights, nothing I hadn’t heard before but in such a simple way that I’d recommend the book to others. One of the things that stuck out from my first listen was when he was talking about how people may laugh at you for thinking you could live other than them. That idea that people maybe don’t want to succeed they want to see you fail. In line with that crab bucket effect. Like say you’re a happy person and they’ll do their best to poke and prod to get you upset and if they succeed they’ll laugh and take pleasure in it. I’ve been through that. So now if I get around shitty individuals I will walk and it’s not gonna take me years, months or weeks, even days. I used to put up with the abuse thinking they’d realize that there’s no problem at least from my end. The author didn’t mention it but this kind of goes in line with the idea that we’ve probably all seen- they tell you not to share your goals with anyone. Well for me if I’m happy and I’m not showing it off, I’m literally just being and somebody makes that a problem, I will leave, I don’t have to stay and wait for anybody else to change. I’ll just keep moving until I find my place or people, I’m kind of in one of those phases now. It always works out somehow for me and I don’t need to force myself to stay where I’m not welcome or wanted.