“Who are you?” and “Who do you think you are?!”.
If I were to ask you to listen to your inner-dialogue for a second, if you’re anything at all like me, you’ll start noticing a constant torrent of negative self-impressions, cutting criticisms, and vile put-downs. If I were to ask you to pick out anything positive about yourself in that cacophony – what’s this!? – we pause sagely and furrow our brows as our minds begin shining a light in the darkness in search of something good. In the end though, most of us prevail and hold up that shining thing about ourselves whose tolerance passes as self-love in contrast to all the rest. Some of us are lucky enough to hug our unique characteristics and features.. even our foibles and short-comings. They belong to us and we to them – and we love them for it!
What about asking for a positive response to the other question? “Who do you think you are?”. I’m not used to hearing this question in any other way than as a sneer – it’s strange. But there it is. Like the playground bully poking his finger into your chest – “Who do YOU think you are!?”, ignoring everything else, bring a come-back that’s going to put you back in the drivers seat
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