We Learn By Example
You don’t know what kind of capacity you have for understanding and sympathy until you see it demonstrated by someone else. Part of that demonstration can come from people you are in contact with, part can come from the news, and part can come from the books and articles you read. Face it, we are sponges and soak up what we can, at least that which seems reasonable to us at the time.
So, that’s the good stuff. There is as much bad stuff out there.
Like parents and caregivers who have larger-than-life mental problems, I can point to my own father as being bipolar and frustrating. His Whole Life. Well, I didn’t know him when he was a child, but family lore points to his parents as walking the same path. I’m 70 years old now and am still working with the blowback of him on my life. But I learned from it and came out the other side as well-balanced as I suppose I can be. At least I don’t blame everyone else for my problems like he did.
It didn’t come naturally, I can tell you. I had to go out there and figure out what was going on with me. Simple lessons when it all gets boiled down, but it took me a long time. First to admit there was even a problem.
It would have been a sight easier for me had my father been well-balanced. He was not, and I learned from it.
Really, it’s all in how you look at it. You can begin seeking out good influences in your life at any age. For instance, if your friends insist on meeting in bars and driving under the influence, I would suggest that you get new friends. You could still talk to them on the phone, but don’t lend them any money unless you figure you’re never going to see it repaid to you. If all they do is complain, don’t answer the phone. If they spread the word that you are poison, then the other friends who begin to wonder what is wrong with you, too, are more than likely the wrong friends at that point.
I once told a lady who complained about the men she was meeting not to spend so much time in the bars where she was meeting them. Duh. She didn’t like my advice. Maybe she wasn’t ready for it.
Just do what you can. Keep your nose pointed forward. Learn as much as you can from others. Put yourself in positions where the people you meet are above the normal caliber of the folks you usually meet. Or, at least, put that wish out into the universe, and you might start talking to the guy who stocks the shelves in your local grocery store and find out he is fascinating as all get out. At least, he’s got a job.
You’ve got to take risks. You can’t improve other people. You can only work on yourself.
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