We all have a history and by history I say trauma. Some of us think that they are to cool for school and don't go to therapy while others indulge in bad therapy because they hear on and on what they want to hear and others who try to heal. Every person that we meet has an ex boyfriend, ex husband, ex girlfriend or ex wife (please appreciate the political correctness) and I am talking about the significant experiences that due to thier importance at a certain point in our life they live scars. The society is putting so much pressure on the healing idea that everybody started to say with so much confidence " I am 100 % healed", no you are not stop lying. My therapist said something really smart about this:" we all got damaged in relationships ( parents, friends, romantic), in relation is where we heal". We all have triggers that we are not aware of from past experiences and just wait for the moment and the button will be pushed at the least expected moment. Communicate, be open and maybe when the other pushes buttons you didn't know you have and you act out, just maybe you will find somebody who is willing to listen if you take your head out of your ass and admit that there is no such thing as 100% healed. Along the years I looked at me and at other persons and i saw something very interesting. I was still keeping a bunch of pictures of me and my ex wife on social media and i was stating that I am over her, on the other hand she instantly removed everything and carried on with her life. I am just asking out of the 2 of us who do you think was really over the other one? When i got asked by a girl about the pictures as clearly she was bothered by them i said that those pictures are part of my life and I must have them without thinking even a second about how she was feeling which clearly showed my level of involvement there as i was not over. Then i realized this and i admited I am not over and that will take them down when I will feel it. The moment came 6 months later but i still kept a lot of context pictures like it was hard for somebody to realize. Guess what? another girl appeared and she picked on the pictures but this time i had the perfect answer: this are context pictures are you crazy i have nothing to with that it's the past. She took a deep breath and she told me that is frustrating for her that now her friends started following me and also her mom and they see that i have "context" pictures with my ex but not even one "context" picture with her. I repeat my ex simply took everything down, including the "context" ones. I remained convinced me with me that it was normal for me to have those pictures and that she had problems in accepting me and the fact that I have a past. Later on i realised she was right as i was so focused on saying i was done when in fact I still had some stuff to understand, yeah clearly i didn't want to get back but I needed more conclusions before letting go of everything and in the process i couldn't care less about what everyone was saying. It is so hard for us to admit with ourselves where we are and be opened about it and hope that the other will understand and that will make them a suitable partner for a relationship in which we both work, instead we choose to say that there is nothing wrong with us and later on we put on a cheap show of past fears and frustrations. Where are we heading in this world in which we focus so much on ourselves that we forget that there are others around us. Others that have their personal history also and they act the same like us and we feed their fears. Just a bit of communication and honesty does magic.
Why the f are we leveraging at a must level the fact that you must be ok to you with you and to be alone and to do stuff alone as like this you heal. People the human is a social creature, in order for our minds and souls to get enriched we need other humans we cannot do it alone. Tonight I was at maybe one of the most amazing theater experiences ever alone, completely alone. And i myself i cannot lie and say that this was perfectly fine, no, it was completely wrong. I would have loved it and my experience would have been fantastic if i had a loved person by my side to share the experience and talk for hours about it afterwards. You will play the smart ass and say that for this you have friends. Stop looking at friends as a substitute for a romantic partner because they cannot offer you the same things. Let's say it honestly that we want we need a dear someone and things suck for the moment a bit either if you just broke up or if you are in the searching process. Stop saying that you are perfectly fine all by yourself as that not natural and it also creates wrong behavior patterns in your mind. Admit the situation and just from there you can start the path of being opened to getting back together or meeting someone new. If you don't realize the loss you never were aware of the presence.
I am falling asleep again but this means i'll come back with a third part because i want to right a few more things on how we see investment in our days and why we don't get to where we wish.