"Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart."
With this image, I have to confess that I tend to either feel this way or look this way daily.
I have been classified as g0y (because there are many aspects of the gay lifestyle I do not agree with), if such a thing really exists. Maybe I'm bisexual, or maybe I'm just confused. I can admit that I do have some same gender attraction.
I found myself attracted to a guy. I do believe he considers himself "gay", even though he publicly never displayed it, and is in a committed relationship.
Being very conservative, and very nervous, and not knowing what to do, I tried to befriend him very slowly. I would ask how he was or how is weekend was, etc.
Truth be told, I would have loved to have had a deep bromance type of thing with him, but I would have taken simple buddies over nothing at all.
Unfortunately, he wrote me off and I haven't seen him in about a year now.
Everyday I try to figure out what I did wrong. Everyday I try to figure out why I am the way I am. Everyday I life my life alone and it feels like my world is crumbling. Nothing takes the pain away except the tears! This image really hits home.
I must confess that for many years I felt just the way you described yourself in the last paragraph of your comment...
I too cried on more days than I can now remember over the course of decades of self-denial and fear. But I finally found relief from those feelings when I realized that I felt that way not because of how I thought others would perceive me, but because of the way I perceived myself. The key for me was finally accepting myself and the truth of my own heart.
I didn't embrace being "gay" as in the stereotypes, but rather, I realized that I was in fact, a "same gender loving" man, and that was the truth of my heart... Every day since then, I have defined myself and not let my fear of the labels that others may choose to use keep me from loving and accepting myself as I am... I am not gay, not SGL, not black, not old, not young, not anything, but only human.
Love yourself and then be yourself... it doesn't matter what you call yourself, just be you!
Jim Henson was a great man with a wonderful understanding of our shared humanity... "Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart."
Christopher,
ReplyDeleteWith this image, I have to confess that I tend to either feel this way or look this way daily.
I have been classified as g0y (because there are many aspects of the gay lifestyle I do not agree with), if such a thing really exists. Maybe I'm bisexual, or maybe I'm just confused. I can admit that I do have some same gender attraction.
I found myself attracted to a guy. I do believe he considers himself "gay", even though he publicly never displayed it, and is in a committed relationship.
Being very conservative, and very nervous, and not knowing what to do, I tried to befriend him very slowly. I would ask how he was or how is weekend was, etc.
Truth be told, I would have loved to have had a deep bromance type of thing with him, but I would have taken simple buddies over nothing at all.
Unfortunately, he wrote me off and I haven't seen him in about a year now.
Everyday I try to figure out what I did wrong. Everyday I try to figure out why I am the way I am. Everyday I life my life alone and it feels like my world is crumbling. Nothing takes the pain away except the tears! This image really hits home.
I must confess that for many years I felt just the way you described yourself in the last paragraph of your comment...
DeleteI too cried on more days than I can now remember over the course of decades of self-denial and fear. But I finally found relief from those feelings when I realized that I felt that way not because of how I thought others would perceive me, but because of the way I perceived myself. The key for me was finally accepting myself and the truth of my own heart.
I didn't embrace being "gay" as in the stereotypes, but rather, I realized that I was in fact, a "same gender loving" man, and that was the truth of my heart... Every day since then, I have defined myself and not let my fear of the labels that others may choose to use keep me from loving and accepting myself as I am... I am not gay, not SGL, not black, not old, not young, not anything, but only human.
Love yourself and then be yourself... it doesn't matter what you call yourself, just be you!
Jim Henson was a great man with a wonderful understanding of our shared humanity... "Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart."
"Fear Eats the Soul"