Daenerys said:
anart said:
Does it make you feel good about yourself to be seen as a teacher or rescuer? Be honest.
What makes me feel good, as I have mentioned several times in this thread, and why I am willing to listen a lot of the times, is because I know what it is like to not have anyone who cares, and I do not like to see people in that position. That is the bottom line. I have also said a couple of times that it does cost me sometimes. I have tried to learn to eliminate where that energy drain comes into the picture. I also would have liked to have something valuable pointed out to me as well. That is my motivation.
I think it best I just leave this alone at this point.
Hmmm, that's unfortunate because 'just leaving it alone' basically means that you don't want to talk about it any more, which also means you're not really listening to what is being said to you because it doesn't agree with your vision of yourself and this situation. Let me put it this way, just in case you can actually hear me:
Helping people is a good thing. In order to help people, we have to be capable of doing so without being eaten up in the process and the people we are helping have to be capable of being helped (meaning they must be capable of helping themselves).
That is what it comes down to.
From your responses to me, it is obvious that you're not hearing what I'm saying to you, which is unfortunate. You see, we as human beings, project all sorts of ideas, feelings, motivations and thoughts onto the people around us, especially when pity is evoked or we care about them. For the most part, 90% of what we think other people are feeling, thinking and motivated by is a pure projection on our part and simply not true. One of the first lessons we must learn is that we are not the people around us - and that not everyone is motivated by the things that motivate us.
I think it would really help you to sit down and think about that deeply and try to take a look at your situations and the posts you've written here as if someone else had written them. Perhaps then you'll start to understand what I am trying to say.
Again, helping people is good - but the devil, as always, is in the details.