That I guess depends upon how you are assessing your value, and to whom. Funny how sometimes those who are closest to us - be they family, friends or lovers - seem not to value us through what is in all likelihood "benign neglect" stemming from a tendency to take what is constant for granted. Work brings its own frustrations, because while it seems silly to allow our jobs to define us, it is hard not to associate some of our value with something that takes up so much of our time.
My breathing gets short as anxiety runs high, and it happens in the most peculiar places. Why should trying to make a decision on what to buy at the grocery store (when my original well thought out but just-not-to-be plans for dinner crumble) throw me into a tail spin? It is, I think, just me... if I would allow myself room to breathe, room to think, perhaps it would not be so.
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Date: 2005-09-16 01:41 am (UTC)That I guess depends upon how you are assessing your value, and to whom. Funny how sometimes those who are closest to us - be they family, friends or lovers - seem not to value us through what is in all likelihood "benign neglect" stemming from a tendency to take what is constant for granted. Work brings its own frustrations, because while it seems silly to allow our jobs to define us, it is hard not to associate some of our value with something that takes up so much of our time.
My breathing gets short as anxiety runs high, and it happens in the most peculiar places. Why should trying to make a decision on what to buy at the grocery store (when my original well thought out but just-not-to-be plans for dinner crumble) throw me into a tail spin? It is, I think, just me... if I would allow myself room to breathe, room to think, perhaps it would not be so.