Self Pity
Self-pity is highly addictive. The media bombards us with eye-catching, fear captivating headlines. Real life also holds challenges for all of us, we face many obstacles and have many setbacks. Few people live truly charmed lives.
When the going gets tough, it is easy to turn down the self-pity highway and punch the gas. Surely when we turn our focus to the lackings in our lives, compare ourselves or circumstances unfavorably to others, or repeatedly ask,
"Why me?",
we just sink deeper and deeper into despair and self-pity. The land of self-pity is barren with an emotional gloom and doom landscape.
While staying miserable can feel tempting, the fact is that doing things to better ourselves feels better. Maybe not so much in the moment, but over the long term it really does pay to get off the misery highway. Making misery your drug of choice just makes you move toward more misery.
No doubt about it, if we let it, misery can always take us to a place of finding even more misery with others who are miserable.
The exciting news, though, is that if you look with awareness, there are angels of inspiration all around to inspire and help you climb up and off the slippery slope of misery.
Psychology Today
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