Goodbye Fear

I never thought things would affect me this much… I had a brilliant weekend, I had the best company I could wish for, I had fun, I was happy, I was laughing lots, there was good food and drinks and the weather couldn’t be more perfect. And last but not least: there were shared confessions, sweet words that I was surprised to hear so I must have been blind and utterly deaf for quite some time I guess… *not anymore!*

And then out of the blue things slowly start to come back and creep up on me. Why oh why do I feel the way I do, why are the effects of the past trying to catch up with me once again. I’ve heard it a few times, my friend MD told me recently, over the weekend to be exact. He said I should stop thinking/reasoning about my feelings till they’ve completely diminished and dare to feel instead. I can’t help but doing it again.

It’s fear… and I don’t have a clue why… Well I do actually. It’s fear of not being good enough and fear of being rejected. And I realise I need to work on this before things get all screwed up again. And I need to be patient, I would like to be patient… and should stop being the perfectionist. So what I’ll do is, I’ll write down what is bothering me on a piece of paper and I will burn it and bury the ashes deep deep down in the soil…

I feel vulnerable but I should know that things are good the way they are, instead of doubting all that I could ever doubt, about anything. Perhaps I see this vulnerability as some kind of weakness and since I need to be all perfect I can’t accept weakness, I need to be strong in order to survive. So the reasoning starts again because it’s so much easier to reason and make up your own logic than having to face the feelings.

I deserve something good… than why am I having such a hard time to accept things the way they are? *Looking for pen and paper*

The Blue Envelope

To my surprise I received the infamous and dreaded blue envelope from the Netherlands this morning. I looked down from the top of the stairs and couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw what was lying there on the doormat: a blue envelope?

Funnily surprising how instantly recognisable it is because it’s so typical Dutch… It’s been three years since I sent off the last one to Heerlen… I still don’t believe what happened, because they informed me about a three zero amount that I’ve just received from them over 2006.

They already have been extremely generous when I sent off that last letter and now two years later, on top of that, I receive another third of what I got previously. I never had a bad relationship with them -unlike some Dutch- but this is the best blue envelope I’ve ever received!

It pays for a long-standing trip in the near future…

© Zesty Gal, Bless me for keeping good records *hehe*