Maximus

Thanks for your delicate response

Imperfect made a post titled, "audiences love self-compassion". I was pleasantly surprised to see it in my analytics tab as one of the referrers, and it was nice to read through, because I felt noticed and because it provided value. Some great points were made by what seems like someone far wiser and far more educated than me. And I think that's great because I get to learn about a subject that's deeply relevant to me from someone who has experience and an understanding of my individual grievances. That last sentence was an example of me practicing self-compassion. I believe I practice it quite often but it's more so promises of sweet things to come in the future because of what I've endured or experienced. They say hard times build character, and character could help me later.

But I'm thinking that's still a pretty narrow view on self-compassion, and it can probably be practiced in a myriad of different ways. Personally, I think that's a shame that your view on yourself affects how people view you, because you can be deep in a rabbit hole of self-deprecating thought, and other people will often reflect that back. As for adopting charitable counterparts of some existing negative thoughts, I think that's a great idea that might work for me with some effort. I'm still not so confident about that haha. Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright, and you could argue that some of the positive thoughts have to be based in reality. Otherwise it just doesn't feel right.

P.S. I'm still using a randomizer to decide whether or not to post something, and I was really hoping this one in particular would go up which it did.