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by
John Kim
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May 28, 2023 - July 25, 2024
Because there’s more to life than who we choose to love.
First, stop ruminating while you’re having that lonesome feeling. Stop feeding it. Stop asking yourself if you will ever find the kind of person you’ve always dreamed of. Maybe you won’t. But if that shakes your world, the last thing you need to be in right now is a relationship. Because that desperation will only poison whatever relationship you do find yourself in.
Radical acceptance is the practice of accepting life on life’s terms and not resisting what you cannot change. Radical acceptance is about saying yes to life, just as it is.
We continue to drift further from ourselves, and the more we disconnect from ourselves, the more we crave connecting with someone else.
Relationships we know aren’t right but we don’t want to be alone. Or we think we can fix because fixing things is how we find value in ourselves. But we can’t fix other people. And we’ll always only be 50 percent of any relationship. So even if we could be perfect, that would be only half and half is not enough.
What breaks us is drifting away from ourselves for too long.
We are not born just to do things. Or just to love other people. Our potency and our path forward are first found in our connection with ourselves. And it’s through this connection, this evolving, growing, expanding relationship with ourselves, that we honestly, genuinely, and meaningfully do things and love people. How I Connected Back to Me I never felt so alone and I’ve never felt so alive. —THIRD EYE BLIND I had no idea or plan.
Real work comes from going through the journey, not just from absorbing information.
Would liking yourself impact the people you choose to surround yourself with?
I am a product of where I grew up, who raised me, and what has happened to me. And I realized I could return that shit and think new thoughts, choose my own ways of thinking.
try everything, twice.
