Bad company ruins good morals9/23/2023 ![]() I had always joked about OCD with my cleanliness and habits which I think is what most people relate the three letters to but it also means you have hyper-focus and attention on one or several topics. We’ve all got somethin‘) I was diagnosed (?) with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Spoiler Alert: After a lot of therapy ( highly recommend, btw. Doesn’t that sound mature? But with feeling failed in so many other aspects of my life, that was just one I thought I could control. I felt like if I ‘lost’ or got rid of relationships that no longer served me that I somehow failed or became irrelevant. ![]() I felt a false sense of accomplishment and importance from people knowing who I was and, the more people I knew, the better I was doing. I had prided myself on having longstanding relationships. It felt like I couldn’t let go of anyone or anything. Looking to launch your brand? Let’s start with a FREE Discovery Session where you can ask me anything! You can now look back on however many years you’ve lived on this planet and probably identify at least one or two times that felt the same for you. Things simultaneously felt out of control and completely in sync. Maybe it was the cross-country move to Washington state, the complete solitude of every person I had ever been to who I was at that time or the immediacy of making friends in the military life. Welcome to adulthood! We still don’t know what we’re doing. You start surrounding yourself with people who are interested in the same things you are and it becomes a bit easier to surround yourself, or distance yourself, from people you want to know the rest of your life. You could form yourself into a new person. Remember how monumental it was? Moving in to your own space and independence but out from under the scrupulous eye of your parents and community. Then some of us left for college or out-of-state opportunities. There was a familiarity in ‘the way things happened’ and a routine of ‘how things had always been’. In a small town, you get used to knowing everyone and their grandparents and where everyone lived. As a child in and a teen who always kept busy in multiple organizations we became accustomed to shaking hands and seeking to know everyone. I’m reminded weekly, if not daily, how so many of the connections in my own life have morphed, evolved or disappeared. There’s a lot to be learned from relationships as we grow and mature. Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 1 Corinthians 15:33
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