BLUE COUP D’ETAT

Some what behind on my publications in Japan, time really flies here. So I will publish another old thought of self talk that is somewhat thought provoking, at least to me.

NO SHAME, NO SHAME! But how when you do things you feel ashamed of–stop being ashamed? Stop doing the things? Neither answer is satisfactory–I strive to stop doing the things that make me ashamed but sometimes I falter and the shame is great. It doesn’t seem right to accept things from myself that I think are wrong or shameful. I think it’s a cop out to just say, “well that’s just me and thus I love it”.

The secret to loving others is to accept and in turn love their faults–love the faults, love the person. Somehow need to apply this maxim to myself–reconcile my desire to change the things that I’m ashamed of–my faults–with a loving knowledge of those faults, maybe a sense of humor–to laugh at myself rather than torture. Will the laughter help me change or cause me to accept my weaknesses and fall into a laughing self reproach?