Thursday, August 03, 2006

pain.

so you have a situation where things bring you pleasure for a while..........then intense pain. gambling for example or shopping or chasing unavailable women. at first you get the pleasure. playing slots or cards, buying yourself things or sitting and talking with a girl who stares deep into your eyes as you talk to her then flirts with you via e-mail late at night.................
then the pain comes.
you lose your money at the casino. your visa card payment comes, and worst of all, your e-mail inbox is empty.
what do you do?
you realise you can never go back to the casino, or spend indiscriminently and stop checking your e-mail or thinking of clever things to compose in another e-mail to send the first one that didn`t get answered or call her on her cell phone.
you just have to ride out the pain no matter how much it hurts. cold turkey. never again.
and don`t go to starbucks on tuesday night when you know she`ll be glad to talk to you until midnight and stare into your eyes like that.
and why not you say?
because as much as you think it feels so good to be near her, you love yourself unconditionally and would not put yourself in this position again............because it will kill you.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

you mentioned cold turkey. well there is more to it than you know.

Dr.Alistair said...

well, yes, i suppose there is. i am lucky in that these feelings haven`t consumed my life and made me reckless. i haven`t damaged or dishonoured her or myself and i know that over time i will stop having the pain. right now it`s tough though. i am grateful to have some strong metal tools to help me cope.................

Anonymous said...

as long as it helps

Dr.Alistair said...

this has been the greatest test of my enlightenment. the look in her eyes when she looks at me set my soul on fire. i recognised myself in that. how much i love myself. but here`s the problem. i am just out of a long difficult relationship with and i don`t want to go right from the fryiing pan and into the fire......and take someone who i care about with me.
we all need time to grow into recognising and loving ourselves. first. i will see my friend at the coffee shop but i have to just let it slip gently away for now............and if it persists then.......we`ll see.
and i have learned to accept that the pain was my reaction to all the rejection that i`ve experience over the years and the attempts i`ve made to have relationships with unavailable women.

Dr.Alistair said...

the answers are inside us all if we dare to look.
no guts, no glory..........mental tools, metal tools.....yeah, whatever.
facing the pain of all the other episodes is what has got me through all the anguish. being able to realise where this all started and begining to release those feelings.
that`s where the authenticity lies.