Stream of Thought

Paradigm Shift

I have always wanted friendship and community, but I had not often experienced it wanting me, in return.

The sensation is surprisingly unsettling.

While I have known and written about feeling isolated, I did not really know how chronically it had impacted.

I am shocked by how exposed I feel – as if someone has overturned a rock under which I was hiding.

Being invited to express myself imperfectly feels alarming as I risk and dare to care.

I lose sense of who I have been and currently think I am – as if I am suddenly spinning out of control, careening.

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Changes

I am letting friendships begin in a time when I feel too vulnerable.

They are female friendships – which can be the best kind, in my opinion, because we get into the roots of living, flushing out suffering, and helping each other toward healing.

However, I am nonplussed, confused, and disoriented because I have not had these kinds of relationships for too long of a time.

My friends get to see sides of me that are not pretty.

I don’t want to be seen as “only human.”

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Time To Process

I find that the bathroom here has become a sort of meditation room for me where I take time to process what’s been happening.

Perhaps it is due to the fan always being on, where the white noise helps drown out the world’s impressions by overstimming my senses.

Also, it is an official “time out zone” where it is generally accepted that other people, animals, and life pressures must “for pure decency’s sake” reliquish you to your privacy.

I am also learning that I am currently not a morning person. I do best if around 11am is my get up call. Then, I take about an hour to wake up in this prep room by looking at my Instagram, planning the day’s schedule, etc.

Soon enough (and with much conscious effort), I must break out of the lull that having space for myself provides – and push out again into the demands of the day.

Perhaps giving so much conscious focus and energy in my healing therapy is more draining than I realize.

Perhaps, also, the need for my instincts to stay constantly poised and alert for any malarkey that must be avoided or smoothed uses endurance.

For when you do not have a home of your own, other people’s energetic influences can too easily overshadow and attempt to manipulate your own.

At least, this is what my hind brain tells me.

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Regret

A recent tea leaf advised me to not regret choices made when my own bravery assisted me to step into the unknown.

I feel chagrined in that for once I let down my diligence and instead invested in an experience that allowed me to viscerally feel again alive, hopeful, and in love.

I guess that I can just tally the money lost for not trying to recoup from the scammer’s ploy where I had thought my actions covered added to the money lost by the government agency’s “scamming.”

I paid premium dollars for two “virtual reality” experiences where I was led to believe that someone I highly valued valued me, and that government agencies have my best interests guaranteed.

My regrets are that I still feel any attachment while my sense of injustice tries to prod me to action.

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Lost Funds (February 2022)

When the scammer had arrived, she was ready for a holiday. In fact, she desperately needed it.

Being of a generous and ambitious nature, she bought into the fantasy and released raw creativity.

But, an important timeline passsd where she could have fought for what she was owed.

She was just so tired of having to beg for what was hers, while being denied at the government’s teat.

The process had been overly frustrating, time consuming, and deeply humiliating.

So she chose to invest in a representation of light to outshine desperation’s darkness.

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Heels Of A Romantic

She had become shy over the years when it came to revealing her heart’s intentions. She did not like the pain experienced once she had invested in partnership – and was then rejected.

However, just when she thought she had mastered the art of seclusion, extra bursts of confidence grown brave despite disillusion would push her into the sunlight to test and challenge paradigms.

But, this did not mean that those she reached out to would accept or reciprocate her regard for them. Each person is in their own growth cycle along their own timeline.

Perhaps she hoped for too much, expecting others would listen to and be ignited by her mission. The more she thought about this, the more she became embarrassed for asserting.

Gathering her dreams about her, she exited rooms where to her promise once glistened.