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On taking responsibility

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rosencrantz:
Oh Portia - you posted while I was writing.

Ah, let's see.  Restrained concise precise truth-telling with just a smigeon of contempt, I think.   It's the legal training.  Precision, facts. With a little arrogance thrown in - just in case anyone thinks you don't know what you're talking about!!!   I'm not kidding - if you are an arts graduate they compress your brain specially and it never comes back to normal.

And Thunderbirds can probably go home now - Rescue Mission Accomplished.  Plenty to think about but I've worked my way through a LOT in the past few days.  Coming for a coffee??  I'll drive, Parker.  :wink:

A lot of people helped and a few in particular.  And some helped by staying out and letting me get on with it.  And a number enjoyed the peep show.  Don't think I don't know.   :wink:   You never know, hang around, I might be down the plughole again tomorrow and I'll pop up like The Mask and shout 'Showtime'! (Now that's funny!)
R

Portia:
R, my last post for a few days I think. Your last post (page 1) felt full of realism and I wanted to print off


--- Quote ---The Psychiatric Nurse said that she thought my mother was trying to hurt me.
--- End quote ---

And stick it on your wall. That’s someone who has seen, isn’t it?


--- Quote ---some people just need to hurt other people consistently
--- End quote ---

It seems so. I feel sad for them but I can’t be with them, have them inside me. Have to protect the inside! I hold to me that the traffic accident, war, genocide, terrorism could be me or my OH any time…and those others who are hurt, need sympathy, help…they could take all the goodness away and waste time, life. This is why I could never work in voluntary service amongst the worst of it … I would rage against such a cruel world, cruel people. Mathew Paris on ‘Today’ said about Iraq (paraphrasing): “Saddam didn’t make Iraq what it was/is: he was a product of Iraq. And you expect it to be ok once he’s gone? No”. I’m not being political, I just thought how refreshing to hear that said.  

If you have the choice to stay out of the way of people who can hurt you, take it! Run away! Protect the inside. Have we come full circle? Coffee, yes please or red wine, cheese, chocolate: all those things that are bad and stimulating! Life’s too short not to, definitely. P

Peanut:
Another great thread.  It took me 43 years before it even dawned on me that people actually did 'intend' to be mean...and still I was trying to make excuses for it and find a way to 'heal' them so they wouldn't have to be mean, etc..

What a smack in the head it was when that realization finally came.

Increasingly admiring, Peanut  

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