Thanks for stopping by for Coffee Hour @ Chicklit Power and
Tuesday’s Trench Truth with Trench Classes United. Today is the first day of
sharing what we are actually learning in the trenches at this time, so grab
your coffee or your favorite beverage and come on in for a trench truth.
Have you ever hung out with someone for an hour or two and
gotten sucked into their opinions and observations which just so happened to be
about everyone else? And then when you said good-bye you felt this surge of
relief and realized your ears were tired and your heart heavy?
When much of our conversation is about others, this is a
sign of one of two things: either it’s a bad habit to get in the lane of
others’ lives, or it’s a sign of an internal struggle to stay in our own lane,
our own life! It’s called a preoccupation
with others. Let’s look at that word for
a minute:
pre·oc·cu·pa·tion
“Lost in
thought, extreme or excessive thought about something or someone”
In other
words, Coffee Hour Friend, a preoccupation with others’ lanes of travel, aka,
their lives is a distraction from our own!
We must ask
ourselves, why…am I so preoccupied with them and what concerns them? Is there
something in my own life I’m not willing to look at? Is there something within
me that I need to have my thoughts occupy?
Learning and
unlearning
Evinda
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