tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12854377.post2950913353239072964..comments2023-08-10T20:32:09.348+12:00Comments on The Accidental Hippy: DefeatedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463081557242488167noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12854377.post-38643000911208347402009-08-18T10:20:10.314+12:002009-08-18T10:20:10.314+12:00I guess you're right on the IT thing. When I f...I guess you're right on the IT thing. When I first talked to Annie and said I wanted to go with her I said I'd do whatever was needed even if it was just dishes and cleaning and teaching these classes is what she said was needed. I hope that I can see it's of use when I'm there. <br /><br />I wonder if this is me being a perfectionist. I made a cross stitch for Nat that had Madi's birth details on it and her and heather kept saying how much they liked it but all I could see was the things I'd done wrong. In the end I had to tell myself to stop pointing them out!<br /><br />I am more then happy to bear others burdens, just that it feels like that's all others do for me!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06463081557242488167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12854377.post-2182197382433028092009-08-17T22:11:59.611+12:002009-08-17T22:11:59.611+12:00I know how you feel! That's what inspired my ...I know how you feel! That's what inspired my normalicy fail blog a while back. But since then I've realised a bit that actually, it just looks like everyone is all self sufficient, and actually nobody is. <br /><br />I think it's so awesome that you are teaching IT, I totally want to do that when I go over there! From my studies, I can tell you that what you are doing is probably, no easily, the most useful thing that you could be doing. Lots of people go to developing countries and do like building and stuff, but actually it's usually just taking work away from other people who could do it and get more skills. Teaching people skills, empowering people to do things themselves, that is development at it's best, so I'm very proud that you are doing it!<br /><br />I totally understand how you are feeling, because I struggle too, but I think it's really important to make a real deliberate effort to think of some things that are really awesome about yourself, like that you do cross-stitch (geeky, yet cool), like how you are going to volunteer in a foreign country, like how you are doing the best tour of asia ever, like how you are generous and tender-hearted, like how you have really cool friends, like how you love and cherish your family, like how much you have overcome.<br /><br />We often think, in Western culture, that self sufficiency is the ultimate test of success, but actually, it's much more precious when we 'bear one another's burdens'. Life is about love, and love is taking care of others and letting them take care of us. Yep, I could make my own dinner and you could make your own dinner, but it's way nicer when I make you dinner and you make me dinner...you know?Sharynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756996252789950326noreply@blogger.com