昨天晚上在睡觉之前讨论了狗狗以后的去留问题,一下子就击中了我的泪腺。这个问题我根本都没有想到过,觉得狗狗一定会回到我的身边。但是想到她的爆冲是有可能拉倒我的,而如果我受伤引起一些不必要的伤害的话,那么可能接下来就是不知道会是怎样的情形了。所以她提出了,有没有这种可能性把Rixi送一个好人家。反正shelter是不能surrender的,我做不出来。虽然很多人到最后都说,只是一条狗。所以过了半夜还是没有睡觉,跟TT讨论,是不是硬把Rixi留在身边,是一种自私的表现。她觉得人还是自私点比较快乐。瑾雯告诉我先管好自己,再管狗狗。可是海芸马上就要去帮助她表妹做月子了,所以不知道那一个月怎么过。也不知道结束了以后还把Rixi送过去吗?这几天没有想到的困难如排山倒海地过来,没有想到过的,想到过的没有想到那么远的,都让我感到非常灰心。刚从医院回来的时候,真的是有点傻乎乎的开心,没有了疼痛,没有了高烧,一下子身体轻得连自己都不知道该怎么办了。而且回想起来,也的确是喜乐的心是良药。直到普通生活的苦又开始找缝隙开始来慢慢渗透,也总感觉到不停地伤心。中午公司为同事开欢送会,居然也给我送了一份外卖,还是很感激,毕竟,她们可以不用管我,因为我没有去办公室。Mooyah的burger还是蛮好吃的,但是fries感觉真是有点消化不动了。 11/3/2021 周三"I think people are afraid. They don’t recognize the power of this rule. And they’re afraid that by going first and giving resources, giving time, giving attention, giving samples, and so on, they might just be losing that. They’re not cognizant of the fact that there’s such a strong rule in every human culture that says you must not take without giving in return."
There is nothing that gets in the way of success more than avoidance. We avoid hard conversations. We avoid certain people. We avoid hard decisions. We avoid evidence that contradicts what we think. We avoid starting a project until we're certain of the outcome.
To justify our avoidance, we lie to ourselves. We tell ourselves that we’re noble — we don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. We tell ourselves we don’t want to offend others. We tell ourselves that things will get better. We tell ourselves that things will get easier. We tell ourselves that we can avoid the real issue without any impact. We tell ourselves we'll start when the time is right.
Sometimes we muster up half the courage. We have half the conversation we wanted to have. We do half the hard thing. We acknowledge the evidence but convince ourselves this time is different. We see the person we’re avoiding but don’t really talk to them. We start but don't commit to the project.
And here’s the interesting thing. Half-efforts tend to make things worse, not better. When things don’t get better, it only reinforces that we shouldn’t have said anything in the first place. Avoiding isn’t better, it’s just easier.
Not only does avoiding today make the future harder, but it also almost always makes the present harder. Avoiding puts you on a hair-trigger, anything will set you off. We all do this. Who hasn’t entirely avoided a hard conversation with their partner about something only to find themselves in an insignificant argument over something trivial? Of course, the petty fight isn’t about the trivial thing, it’s about avoidance of the hard thing.
Everything becomes harder until we stop avoiding what's getting in the way. The longer you wait the higher the cost.