Our Side of the Story

Another book I'd like to recommend is Mental Health by C.R. Swift. I couldn't find the ebook because it was printed in 1977, but I hope you'll find a way to get your hands on it😊

It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga. It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out. But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy. We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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I recite this poem whenever it feels too exhausting to exist. We often forget to live our days caught up in romanticising our pain and death. Believe me life isn't that bad at all✨🤍✨

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I rarely see myself hating on things because I care more about my mental wellbeing and hate is poisonous. One of the rare things I despise is ይሉኝታ (unscrupulousness). Lord do I loathe it with every bone I'm made of. Because it pretty much manipulated me for a long period of time. Putting the emotions of people before mine and their comfort before mine. Please this has got nothing to do with empathy, it's more of allowing people to live your life for you and make decisions for you. You have your own grounds of experiences, mindsets, perspectives and insights. STAND BY THEM (I cannot emphasize this enough). Yes be open to new experiences, knowledge you could get from people but don't alter your decisions or wants just because someone is not comfortable with them. They don't like how you think? Then let them leave, they won't be doing you any good either way. Focus on the rationality of your decisions not on how people will take them alright? Sleep well🤍💜 #LessonOfTheWeek @OurSideOfTheStory

Here is a question to ruminate to "How are you healing?"

I hope today's segment didn't disappoint, sleep well🤍💜

If you want to see more of our guest from today's episode here's a place @MinimalEast

Delayed second segment of the #Healing episode with a different perspective and voice tonight? Stay tuned😊

G'night🤍💜

Um thank you guys? I really don't know how to express the gratitude I'm feeling right now, I never thought I'd reach so many people let alone help them. And getting all the love in the dms makes me believe my life isn't purposeless at all, thank you seriously. I'm the most awkward when it comes to taking compliments and appreciations and I'm sorry if I haven't responded to your expectations but still I want to thank each and everyone of you🤍💜

Don't be afraid to get back up again, to try again, to love again, to live again and to dream again. Don't let a hard lesson harden your heart. @standard_life_love @standard_life_love