Misplaced Trust


WORD FOR THE DAY

Anyone can be happy when they get what they want; the challenge is to stay grateful and peaceful even when the world around you feels crazy and dangerous and horrible.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I miss so much of contented happiness due to worry. I want to let that damn worry go, set it free to the wind and stop letting it control my brain and actions. I want, so intensely, to be a trusting person. 

 I've made headway but there's still a frickin mountain ahead of me. Each time I start to feel the trust grow, something sets it back to a negative number instead of the almost 10 in a range of 1 to 100.  It's the little things that undermine it. It's the "Ooops, I forgot to mention" or the "It's really is not that big of a deal”  that do me in. If only it weren't that big of a deal....For one reason or another, it is. 

 The fact of the matter, I need to trust in me 100%. Everything I need is within me.....well, not yet...but it will be.
Py

Comments

  1. anne marie in phillyMarch 28, 2018 at 3:41 AM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tRepZdoRmY

    safe for work; seems apropos for this post

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  2. Marie SmithMarch 28, 2018 at 4:11 AM

    You eill find your way through, Linda. Be patient with yourself!

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  3. Margaret (Peggy or Peg too)March 28, 2018 at 6:26 AM

    I am not a fan of Eliz Gilbert but I do like this quote very much. :-) Thank you!

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  4. Marilyn MillerMarch 28, 2018 at 12:33 PM

    Trust is such a difficult thing at times for sure. Thanks! It is nice to hear someone else struggles with that one too.

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  5. JeanieMarch 28, 2018 at 2:58 PM

    You're a wise and insightful woman, Linda. It will happen. Things take time and we are all so very human.

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