But... 'wanting' is healthy. It is okay to want. That was very hard for me to learn.
Well, that's what Sesame Street is trying to teach me this week. And I've got umpteen years spent denying personal wants and desires and any that might have leaked out I mostly labled as selfish, sinful, impositions to fight against. To the point that I feel like a freakin' cliche'. Or a Mr. Nice Guy sans penis.
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He played by "The Book of Should Be's." Since he was 'playing by the book,' he was therefore 'entitled' to his wants.
That's straight out of the book.
I never quite made it fully to entitled because my empathy levels do run high.
My tools of choice were resentment and withdrawal, rather than entitlement.
Well, that and the occasional explosive tossing of foodfilled plates.
I can testify that these are not successful, productive choices.
My goal is to learn to verbalize my wants.
But first I've got to disinter and resurrect them.
