What is the Cause of Your Relational Battles?
Dear Diary, Have you ever fought relational battles (battles with your relatives and friends - non-romantic relationships)? More than likely you have - I believe people have fought at least one of these battles in their lifetime. I feel like I have been fighting these battles all my life but I now have a different perspective on them. Before I share my current thoughts on this new perspective, I would like to give you a little background on some of my battles. Growing up, I was always compared to others, I was always told to be like others, I was made to believe that I was not good enough and that I would not amount to anything. I tried my hardest to prove myself, I tried to make others see that I am perfectly imperfect just the way that I am, I tried my hardest to make others see that the thought of me that they had in their heads is not me - but nothing seemed to work. Do you know that feeling? Where was all that animosity coming from? Why can't people be accepted just the ...