No one can hurt us as much as we hurt ourselves
There are different ways to judge this. There's the whole 'it's not what's going on that's hurting you, as much as how you perceive what is going on'. And yes, that is also true, and it may be the subject of a different blog entry later on. The perspective I want to touch upon is the one of the things we do to ourselves. The fact that we cannot stop ourselves from digging into shit, even though we know it will not do us any good to do so. Kind of like watching a car crash. Or like all the stupid horror movie characters that always seem to go right where the serial killer is waiting for them rather than getting away from the noise. Why do we do this? Why can't we learn the first time that some things are better not done and not said? That certain people (or types of people) will always hurt us and that we either educate ourselves to be insensitive to them or steer clear of them? I have no answer to my own questions. On this subject, I am weaker than mos