The flip side of the abundant, overflowing cornucopia is the trash barrel overstuffed and spilling garbage all over the street. Face it. Sometimes what we get in abundance are things we never wanted, from the tiny mental assaults of bad drivers to the devastating losses of dear ones to death. Sometimes there is just more grief and anger and frustration than we can contain and the effects spill over into the way we treat other people.
What helps you to keep from spilling your trash in the street when the hardships pile up?
Having a really big trash can constructed of listening friends…I act as their trash can when they have had too much. Blessings.
I find that as I grow older I react to disappointment, unpleasantness and frustrations with much less emotional involvement than when I was young. It just doesn’t seem to be worth the effort to react to these situations with strong feelings. Using anger toward a personal sour relationship just takes too much time. I’m speaking of my relationships with other people. When there is a social cause that goes wrong, that is different. I show up and join the movement to protest the “bad” and do what I can to make social change.