tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8028158521549770149.post1047791706202179414..comments2012-11-16T04:21:04.491-08:00Comments on Watch Me Cultivate: Day 280.Mahfamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661851856786145388noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8028158521549770149.post-21982591474224740762011-11-12T14:18:32.201-08:002011-11-12T14:18:32.201-08:00suenos, thank you for commenting! it's hard to...suenos, thank you for commenting! it's hard to know who's reading out there in the internet abyss, so i appreciate you taking the time to make your presence known. (and am checking out your blog now)<br /><br />it's totally true what you say about the violence living in us. to me it feels like such a tug of war between trying to quell the violence in me and trying to hold people accountable when their violence hurts me. this is my current struggle. let me know if you have any good tips on this. :)Mahfamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06661851856786145388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8028158521549770149.post-90196238167057267272011-11-12T11:16:10.193-08:002011-11-12T11:16:10.193-08:00Thank you so much for sharing this piece! I defini...Thank you so much for sharing this piece! I definitely can connect to it a lot right now. It can be tempting to tell ourselves that we are entering a safe space of female bodied people, of QPOC, of spiritual people ect. to then find those illusions smashed. We live in a very violent system and that violence lives within us. <br /><br />"I must also remember that the harm other people cause me is a) not about me and b) only has as much power as I give it. No one "makes me" feel insecure or less than, or any other way. I just feel that way, and maybe something about the way they treat me intensifies that. There might be useful information in there somewhere, like, for example, that I should stop trying to build relationships with people who do not value me or my needs, but that is not the whole point. They didn't do it to me. This is about me needing to work through my own shit." <br /><br />I feel that. We give people power by allowing people to effect us in certain ways. Feel that. <br /><br />Good piece!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com