Friends and their significant others.........

by sandy 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • sandy
    sandy

    Friends and their significant others.........

  • Aztec
    Aztec

    What about them?

    ~Aztec

  • Huxley
    Huxley

    ....are the apple pie and ice cream of life.

    Huxley

  • Brummie
    Brummie

    Since this is open to interpretation I'm going to dive in and comment on "significant others"

    These are the people that mould us into the person we become, whether through persuasion or through critisism or just by us wanting to be like them. In our desire to please them or to be like them we adopt a personality that is not our real self and this causes us disturbance with our true identity. Without going into a lecture on "actual or ideal self" its far more liberating to use an internal evaluation of who we really are, then our significant others can be enjoyed for who they really are, idividuals whom we do not have to imitate.

    Image all of our significant others being JWs, what kind of people would we become? Well we already know the answer to that dont we...robots striving and being forced to be just like them, rather than enjoying our God given individualtiy.

    With significant others like these its of little wonder we constantly battle to endure the faith, in reality we were battling for our own identity

    Brummie

  • ScoobySnax
    ScoobySnax

    Brummie........ what an excellent analogy of the subject, you know you're not as daft as you make out sometimes....... Excellent thinking.

    Oh wait I just hit the last paragraph...........

  • Brummie
    Brummie
    you know you're not as daft as you make out sometimes

    Well now that my one brain cell has been outworn and exhusted I'll have to go back to the fluff department, ....

    brummie

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