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My life is too complicated.... » Dinah

Posted by 64Bowtie on March 30, 2004, at 13:45:59

In reply to Re: Poet: My 'hack' - Hmmm...struck a nerve... » 64Bowtie, posted by Dinah on March 30, 2004, at 12:55:09

(((Dinah))), I will personalize this to stay away from PBCs...

Personally my life is too busy and complicated to leave it to the likes of my inner child.

I wrote an article in 1991 how control is the bad word, and management is the good word, when talking about manipulation. If I am being manipulated by my inner child, be assured that my inner child is controlling me. And I am compelled to act without knowing why.....

Actually, operating as an adult, when someone manages me with caring and options, I am satisfied with the nature of the manipulation. (That wasn't in the 1991 article; I just saw it right now).

Management is manipulation for the sake of all, and everyone benefits. Control is manipulation for the sake of self, and only I benefit and everyone else can suck an egg! (like that...)

I am 'enough' and fully capable of living my life. I have an inner child I am aware of. Get me on a roll and my inner child will do 15 minutes of spontaneous 'stand-up', and without the audience throwing things at me, even. I take life on, on its own terms. I do a better job as an adult. My impishness has cost me friends, money, and even jobs in the past.

I can choose, make choices, as an adult. I am compelled as a child. So, I choose to live my life as the adult that I am. Ever since I made this choice, I stopped hearing voices telling me how to act and how to be. Today I speak with one voice and it is mine.

FYI, I am a slow-study late-bloomer. I was 41 when I made that choice. Today at 52, I have had many moons to ponder the wisdom of that decision.

Rod



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