Broken Arm: Confidence verses Self Importance
My daughter has had much attention paid to her since the breakage of her arm.
She came home and announced “I am popular Mummy!”. I have everyone stopping me and asking “what happened?”.
Oh dear. Mother me please.
Okay. Taking a deep breath and gaining my confidence I asked her to sit down. Now “I said” you notice people stop and ask you things? Yes? Okay … what is happening is they are “interested” in your experience. You are not popular. What has happened to you is an experience, you have “had” and they haven’t. Goodness me – she looked at me as though I had just burst her balloon.
No use in pumping a balloon when I can inspire my child to generate her own energy to raise the world – I don’t want to create and feed an ego! Hey amigo! So I advised her to tell as much as what she knows from what she has experienced so that her little friends “learn” something from “her” (my daughter’s) experience. I don’t want her thinking that to have an injury is a way of becoming popular. In my eyes that generates an attention requirement that will only need feeding if adopted in a “negative” form.
In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. ~Dereke Bruce
Self-Confidence:
Half the job is seeing in your mind,
the other half is believing in your heart
If you really really want to do anything
just find a way and say I CAN … more
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