Coming back to the Baha’i Faith. It seems that the mindset of gun carrying Arizona Baha’is is more conservative than that of the California Baha’i community. In California, my relationship with Immortal Pirate was frowned upon and becoming a gun owner was shocking, so I walked out. However, in Arizona, our relationship is no big deal and everyone in the Baha’i community owns guns.
Selling my California house and moving to Arizona. I thought it was going to be hard, but I was practically pushed through the sale and the move just took packing boxes and calling a moving service.
We tend to cast difficult things as “impossible” — so we feel justified in not even trying.
Your last sentence really got me thinking. Over many years of losing people important to me I have developed some better-than-average grieving skills. I seem to “know the trick” to dealing with both the grief and the often accompanying depression. (Having dealt with “clinical depression” for years).
Tackling them is certainly far more “doable” for me. But that doesn’t mean that they still cannot spin off in a direction I’m not prepared for. My last great loss produced an insomnia in me for almost a fortnight that I had not previously experienced and was not prepared for. And after almost 2 weeks of only sleeping an hour or two every night I was becoming mentally unhinged. This rendered most of my coping and healing mechanisms . . . unavailable to me and I had to ask for professional help.
But having overcome so much already in my life, I’m very selective about what I would cast as “impossible”!
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id say all the responsibilities i dodged in my 20s :D
(budget budget budget)
Coming back to the Baha’i Faith. It seems that the mindset of gun carrying Arizona Baha’is is more conservative than that of the California Baha’i community. In California, my relationship with Immortal Pirate was frowned upon and becoming a gun owner was shocking, so I walked out. However, in Arizona, our relationship is no big deal and everyone in the Baha’i community owns guns.
Selling my California house and moving to Arizona. I thought it was going to be hard, but I was practically pushed through the sale and the move just took packing boxes and calling a moving service.
How to set the clock on the VCR…lol
We tend to cast difficult things as “impossible” — so we feel justified in not even trying.
Your last sentence really got me thinking. Over many years of losing people important to me I have developed some better-than-average grieving skills. I seem to “know the trick” to dealing with both the grief and the often accompanying depression. (Having dealt with “clinical depression” for years).
Tackling them is certainly far more “doable” for me. But that doesn’t mean that they still cannot spin off in a direction I’m not prepared for. My last great loss produced an insomnia in me for almost a fortnight that I had not previously experienced and was not prepared for. And after almost 2 weeks of only sleeping an hour or two every night I was becoming mentally unhinged. This rendered most of my coping and healing mechanisms . . . unavailable to me and I had to ask for professional help.
But having overcome so much already in my life, I’m very selective about what I would cast as “impossible”!
Controlling my finances and my appetite.
I’ve found that doing the impossible is the gateway to doing more impossible. Knowing that you’re capable is half the battle.