Thanks Waves...
This is a tough one... No doubt. We judge ourselves unfairly. Yep.
I'm sure it could be so - that many of these public events are projections of our inner conflicts.
One of the other passenger's sentiments was, "it can happen to anybody..." so I guess that is a very strong theme with me. I've seen myself wind up in places. I've seen people I know wind up in places they didn't deserve to be, didn't plan to be...
I see the smoking on the train. I see the littering. That bothers me too. I've been known to say, "Hi, the trash bin is over there..." - but not really get animated about it.
I've been called all kinds of names from faggot to white mother ####er... Pushed, shoved...
The amount of stuff you learn to let go of on a daily basis can be staggering when you live in a city like NY.
This occasion was different.
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Originally Posted by waves
It lightened me so much as i began to see my own self-judgement, to question my right to it, to see how that differed from feelings of remorse, or appreciating the ugliness of the past as a finite thing, and not part of my "soul."
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