Zig, I can definitely tell you that the "be true to yourself" was very specifically intended to be interpreted by you in what ever way it needed to.
It's interesting that your thoughts locked onto the swim suit. I had read about the swim suit and didn't really give it a second thought. Like you asking me about how my thoughts on tats, fast cars and hair removal might be MLC... is doing those things "true to me"? The truth that I feel right now is, I have no freakin' idea. To me, it would be like changing my clothes. Trying something new and seeing if it fits. I really don't think it will... I'm not sure how much longer I'll keep my ear ring...
What I do know is that what ever I do, how ever I change myself externally... well, there is no way to know whether those things will lead me to my salvation... lol... which segues to...
About expectations, sometimes its not expectations of your external environment that we might want to look at. Rather, our expectations of and for ourselves.
Do you notice how a WAS has expectations for themselves and what they are doing? As though extricating themselves from the "bad M" or "bad spouse" will suddenly make their life better? Or even "eventually" make their life better?
And just as much, the lack of expectations of the external environment... is that not sometimes just an expectation that everything in the external environment will just stay the same, regardless of what we do?
There IS ONE expectation (aside from death and taxes) that we can be absolutely sure of. Do you know what it is?
