Posted by Susan47 on August 3, 2004, at 13:25:19
In reply to Re: Sharing insight, posted by vwoolf on August 2, 2004, at 13:48:26
I related to what you have to say, and thank you so much for thinking of me.
I feel quite old as well, I have a grown child and two still in the process.
I've had one career and am preparing myself for a different field now. I feel hopeful now, but there was a time when I felt very sad about missed opportunities and anger that I had wasted so much time trying to please others. And I never could anyway. I only made myself feel inadequate. Now I realize that I'm anything BUT inadequate, actually I can see myself clearly for the first time and it's been a revelation. IF I had been able to appreciate myself thirty years ago, how different my life would have been.
I also would have been a physician. Not a therapist, as I've said somewhere else here in the past... A surgeon.
vwoolf, don't spend too much time grieving, although it is important to do that in order to clear the screen. Just know when to let go and live today.
You're in my thoughts.
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