Lessons in Life

Someone very intelligent and insightful once told me that as human beings, we will never let go of things that frustrate us until we are at that point where we are so fed up, that we finally get tired of putting ourselves in the same nasty situations, and put a stop to our behavior. She said it a lot more eloquently, but you get the gist of it.

So many times, I find myself in the same nasty situations, and try as I might to not let myself be put in them, I seem to fail every time. Theres been definite progress, but never a complete success.

After years of this, I have recently come to the point where I wonder, am I even able to make a complete change? I want to; with all my heart and might, I want to. But I think that I am unable to, at least in this regard. So do I continue to try to force myself to change, or do I just accept the fact that this is who I am, and feel the consequences each time, knowing the full course of how things will go down and accepting it, bc I suspect that this is how it will always be? Sometimes you just have to be realistic with yourself, and take yourself for who you are, for better or for worse.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on...