Blunt Force Truth: When you make things about you, you’re setting yourself up for punishment. Taking things personally is a choice. Interpreting things about you is your choice. Reading into a situation from only this perspective limits what you will perceive and understand. Even if it is about something you said or did, you have the choice to transcend the limited framework of this perception, simply by seeing the bigger picture. Look not only from your eyes, to see from another’s perspective. And how would someone else who’s not involved view the situation? How do you see patterns throughout time? These are ways of stepping out of that first person frame of reference–just ask questions like these that guide you to new ways of thinking. Then you’ll see that it wasn’t really about you in the first place. Maybe you just walked into someone else’s pattern and that purpose was to help them transcend it. So did taking things personally help that? Or did seeing the big picture help pull them out of their frame of reference into an all-new viewpoint, helping them understand even more about themselves? And in the process, how much more are you learning about yourself? We are here to heal each other. And that starts as soon as we stop taking things personally.
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