Enemy

    It seems that at times we tend to look at the outside world (that is the world that is outside our on sphere of thought and reasoning) as nothing more than our enemy.  We look at our workmates and feel they are always trying to do something that will put us in a “bad light” with our employer.  Perhaps they are doing things behind our backs that will only result with us being in trouble maybe to the point of losing our jobs.  The same is true with our classmates if we are still in school.  We can almost see the things they are doing to make us look “stupid” with our other classmates.

     At times there may be some basis of truth to these feelings and potential accusations, but for the most part they are only realities within our own minds.  That being said it doesn’t make the feelings that we have any less tolerable or any less painful.  These feelings are real!  At least that is the way we feel about things.

     Perhaps most of these feelings are due to our own guilt or a feeling of worthlessness within our own being.  We tend to think so little of ourselves that we are certain that others MUST have the same feelings about us!  They must be trying to let others see how unimportant we are within the main stream of life.

     We just “feel” that all of these things are true and there is no hope or no reason for us to feel any different.  It’s true that for some these feelings may be due to a chemical imbalance within their brains and they may need to seek some professional help to get past these moments.  However, many times we just have spent so many years “convincing” ourselves that no one can love us or truly have any real feelings for us that now it almost becomes “automatic” to feel that way constantly.

     This means that WE have become our own worst enemy!  We need to realize that it’s okay to be different.   It’s not wrong to have these feelings, but to keep them under control.  We can love ourselves for who we are and not what others may think we are.  Just be the best person you can be and know that you are worth more than you can ever imagine!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"Folly and Unreasonableness can hide

the enemy within."