(Part 2 of 4)
(Considering how you really feel about the connection, I can’t imagine that you will find this particular conversation interesting for that much longer, but maybe you’ll humor me.)
The reality is – at least according to you – is that there is no connection.
You are not waiting until you are thin to be happy.
If you have been waiting, how do you explain all the happy times that you have had in the meantime?
Maybe you just didn’t plan ahead well enough, so that you could wait like you’ve been meaning to?
Are you on something?
Or on to something?
If you’ve got a diet monkey riding you, and you want to start giving him a hell of a ride, feel free to start shaking him up here in the comments.
He has trouble hanging on when you put what you’re on to, on the record.
It makes it harder for him to get you to listen to his “you’ll only be happy when you’re thin, you’ll only be happy when you’re thin” broken record, when you’re busy recording over it.
(And what could be better than seeing him, instead of you, trying to get a grip?)
Tell me… how do you explain all of the happy feelings and times you have had, if you have been waiting until you are happy, to have them?
Rattle that sucker.
(If you’re not the only one with a monkey and you found this post useful, please share it – I’ve got a monkey carcass quota riding me.)
And stay with me on this thin/happy conversation… you’ve got two more monkey wrenches up your sleeves that we’ll be getting to after you bang this one out.
Have at it!
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*P.S. Thanks to the comments and observations of someone who is busy amputating her monkey, I want to clarify “happy.”
“Being happy” is an umbrella term for a myriad of feelings – being content, satisfied, at peace, having a sense of accomplishment, self-trust, self-confidence- that you may feel like you are putting on hold, until you are thin(ner) [or rich(er) or (fill in the *er.)]
The bottom line is this… name the feeling it is that you think you’re waiting for, and then look for it. (It’s showing up without you changing a thing, except for the looking.)
And if you’re a monkey lover, you’d best not let him get wind of it, because that WILL blow him away.
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Hey! You beat me to it!
For me it really has been, “I’ll wait till I’m thinner to be satisfied with myself.” So no matter what I’ve accomplished in my life, I’ve never been quite satisfied. There’s often been a lingering thought of, “Is this it?” Now I know why. I’ve been waiting.
How about this new statement – When I crush that effin monkey, I WILL be completely and totally satisfied! Until then? I’m just happy thinking about it.
xoS
Sandi, you made a great point that I thought other crushers would benefit from; I had to clarify the post.
So great to hear that you’re happy even just thinking about the crushing. (Guess you’re not the monkey lover you were accused of being?
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xoK