I came to a realization last night when I was at at annual dinner meeting for my horse club. I am getting to be rather bitter about some of the things that have happened to me over the last couple of years. I am so angry about people jumping in and taking sides who don't even know me or anything near the truth about stuff that has happened that it's done something inside me.
Normally I am pretty easy going. I am accepting of people along with their flaws and I don't take things personally. However, these betrayals by people I thought were my friends have felt darn personal and those on the fringe taking sides have felt pretty darn personal too. The whole thing has ellicted a response in me I just didn't expect and I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it. All I know is I don't like it at all.
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- Rising Rainbow
- I've owned Arabian Horses for at least 20 years. While we have been breeding them most of that time, due to the current economy we have stopped breeding. Now with my current health concerns my future with horses may be in question too. In the meantime, with my husband and daughter, we currently have a herd of about 25 horses. Most are sired by our herd sire, Scandalous Legacy. The horses we have bred have been worked with from the day they are born and we pride ourselves on raising beautiful horses with kind, sweet, willing dispositions. Arabian horses have been therapy for me without them I would not be here.
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I don't know if we achieve more clarity of vision as we mature, allowing us to see aspects of people's character we blurred over before. It may be that in hard times we have less of ourselves to give. I've noticed that I judge people more and have been willing to let a few "friends" go. There are new friends out there.
ER, I don't know if it's about letting go of people I thought were my friends. That may be part of it but I find myself being so livid because someone who didn't ever know me in the first place has taken such a dislike to me over something someone else told them I did. I try so hard to be fair and honest with people and this is the total opposite, I guess. All I know is I am really taken aback at my own reaction to this. I guess it's because it feels so unjust.
Amazed about yourself, after all these years? :) Still something to discover, hey!
Ahh yes, the spectre of the unjust. I think that if you acquire a sense of fairness/unfairness when you are young (especially through bad experiences) it is a thing that will stay with you for the rest of your life, ebbing and flowing with circumstance. Oh, it is impossible to shake, and it changes shape as the years roll by. The sense of unfairness and the sense of bitterness in the face of it often pull in the same harness. Sometimes seeing the truth is ugly, and it's natural to wrap it in gut-level anger, which can often be mistaken for bitterness. I don't think you are bitter at all. I doubt this blog would exist if you were.
mago, I think there's always something we can learn about ourselves, don't you?
Muddy K, you may be right. I know I am really angry for sure. What I'm going to do about it is yet to be determined but I'm thinking I'm going to post about it on my other blog. Maybe telling my side of the story will help me not feel so victimized.
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