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Are you happy with yourself?

im always hearing about people not always happy with themselves but i wanna see if thats true.
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I am....and I have worked my a$$ off to feel it for sure! I didnt "own" my life for a long time....but since I have regained that part of me and my independence it has made quite the difference in the happiness department of my life. I chose to be happy rather than what I was previous. It is the gift I gave to me the day I left him and have never looked back.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Not really. I wish I was somebody else, most days.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
not at all. i know i am a good person. but that in itself is not good enough.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Most of the time, yes.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
I am not happy with myself. But in just some days per month, I am ok.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Am I happy with myself? My answer? Not particularly.

I spend the day doing small things, drinking my morning cup of coffee, going to the library, then coming home and listening to music; afterwards going for a walk, shopping for dinner, cooking my evening meal. In between all this activity, when I have a quiet moment (as if all my moments were not quiet!), I look over my notes. I am daunted by them--the strange handwriting, the bizarre references, the bizarrely-boring notes about my life (if one might call it a life). There are two large notebooks, about two hundred pages, filled with my writing. There is too much of it. Some pruning is in order, I should think. There's enough material here for a hundred blog posts, at least.

It's a relief to have household chores to do. They keep me from thinking, just as thinking keeps me from living. My chores are brainless and tiring, they are just what I need.

I think of myself when I was a little boy coming home in the middle of the day for lunch. I had a very serious face, very pale from the Philadelphia winter and perfectly smooth. I had small beautiful hands and deep brown eyes that were so expressive my mother did all she could to please me. She gave me treats, bought me chocolate at the corner store, and cakes for my after-lunch dessert. She watched television with me, sitting next to me. When I was at school my mother missed me so much that sometimes she went early to meet me, and loitered until I appeared.

"What do you want for lunch?"

"A ham sandwich with Swiss cheese."

It delighted my mother that she could make me happy by being with me and offering me these simple things.

Actually, all this is a lie. My mother all but ignored me, and never picked me up at school. When I started kindergarten, my mother had a neighbor child walk me to school to acquaint me, no doubt, with the cruel reality of life that mother is not always there to offer comfort. I accommodated myself very early to the fact that my mother mostly ignored me, rarely tried to please me, and never offered an empathic observation to soothe my troubled heart.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
It's too late to be unhappy with myself, so I'll have to say yes I'm happy with myself.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Well I don't *like* myself, but I've learnt to put up with me...
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
No. Not at all.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
For the most part, I would say that I am... and when I'm feeling less-than-happy-with-myself I just let the feeling be what it is, and try to do better tomorrow. BY the way, I love your avatar picture, that fairy portrait is very beautiful to look at. I have seen it before.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
I am exstatic with myself. I'm exercising, I'm a real help to my family, and the internet is providing me with a continual stream of new wonderfulness.

Plus, I've had some very good mediations, but feeling good about sitting down to concentrate on feeling good just seems silly.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
no
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
No, but I'm trying to get there.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
i usually am pretty happy with myself, but latley, no.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Not really but I am at peace with God, and that is what matters to me. Duana
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
yeah, but feel like lately a certain someone is trying to pull me down because they dont feel too good about who they are and misery loves company....
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
How could I be? My husband doesn't think I'm good enough for him! But I'm working on it. "You are the only one who can make you happy".
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Yes. I am happy with myself. Iam, and will always be, a wonderful work in progress. Standing still would make me unhappy.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Not entirely.
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Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Yes, I am ...
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