“You are not allowed to play with Jimmy Jones any longer,” says your Mum.
“But why Mum…he is my best friend,” you reply.
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My mind was in turmoil.
I knew that I needed to quit my job but I didn’t have the strength to do it. My mind raced back to my childhood and I was seated on my bike. My father had taken my stabilisers off and although I knew I could ride freely, I was scared out of my wits. In the end he gave me a little push, while running by the side of me, and everything was so much easier. Here I was some twenty-odd years later, waiting for someone to push me and to be there for me should I wobble.
In times such as these you look to a few select number of people to help you out. They are invariably your closest friends or family and you expect them to be there for you, because you feel like it is their duty…after all you would do the same for them -wouldn’t you? But I am here to warn you that you might not get the support you need. In fact instead of getting the push you wanted, you get a right hook in the solar plexus leaving you gasping for breath.
Put yourself in their shoes
In my blog post Negative Thinking: The Price of a Can of Tuna I wrote about the negative impact that complaining has on my life. So it may seem counter-intuitive when I write another blog post advocating complaining as a method of reducing negativity. In another recent blog post entitled Take Responsibility For Your Life – Lessons Learned in Venice I offered some advice connected with my trip to the fabulous floating city. Let me use some more stories from that sublime sojourn to explain why my view on complaining is a double-edged sword.
