Triggering Affects

I was sent an article to read today.  When I stated that I would  love to write an article about what I read, I was on fire, I was angered.  I was told that I was, "Triggered".  It made me think about what triggered me.  Was it the person that the article was about?  Probably, I don't like the person.  Was it because a child was killed and the person is admitting guilt, and they are using a legal loophole to get out of having to pay the penalty? Also a very good probability.

What makes us react to certain articles in triggering ways? What makes us automatically want to take sides at first read?

After my friend made the comment, I stepped back.  I decided that I had reacted straight from emotion.  I didn't ask any questions, I hadn't done any research into this area, I had been "triggered".

After owning to the fact that that is exactly what happened, I delved into the article.  I looked at what others had written on the same topic.  I read other peoples comments on the same article.  Now do I still hold that all was done and it was handled correctly? No I do not.  Where I see that there was a change is that I can atleast look  at how I am now reacting.  I no longer want to write an article verbally bashing the unfairness of what occurred.  I want to write a piece that looks at how legislation needs to change, so that something like this doesn't happen to other people.  At how a precedent is now in place that makes some things horrific if people believe that it will be an easy way to get away with something.

Will I discuss the article here?  No, I won't.  This is not what today's blog is about.  Today's blog is about owning your truth, even your behavior.  Asking yourself the hard question, like "what about that triggered me?" And answering honestly.  You owe yourself the honest answers.  Never sugarcoat the truth from yourself.  When you embrace your truth, then you can embrace everything about yourself, the good and the bad, and find the happiness that makes you who you are meant to be.

Can we accept our limitations?

I was discussing books with a person and they recommended the book So B. It by Sarah Weeks.  I was told that it was an excellent read.  When I read the summary I was intrigued, I wanted to know more.  

As an adult we have a hard time accepting our limitations, because as adults we feel that we should be able to do and know whatever we want.  As a child, it was always the question "why?"  There is that stopping point, as a child we were limited by what our parents told us we could know, or what our friends knew.

Join us for the discussion of So B. It by Sarah Weeks.  We will discuss how we either overcome or accept our limitations.

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Book summary: 

Heidi is a twelve-year-old girl with a mentally disabled mother, but who is otherwise extremely lucky. She is taken care of by her next-door neighbor, Bernadette, at whose door the two appeared when Heidi was about a week old. She has no other family of whom she is aware, as the agoraphobic Bernadette had been unable to find any clue of their origins. Before stumbling upon an old disposable camera, Heidi has no further information other than that her mother's 23-word vocabulary includes the word soof, which she assumes holds some meaning she longs to uncover. As she travels alone from Reno, Nevada to Liberty, New York to visit the group home in the photographs and question its tight-lipped manager, she is assisted by strangers on the bus and Liberty residents. Meanwhile, she questions the idea of whether all truths are knowable, and in light of bad luck, a tragedy that strikes during her trip, and the uncomfortable nature of the truth, she also questions whether knowing the truth is always a worthwhile pursuit. The heartwarming ending shows Heidi learning not only the meanings of the mysterious soof, but also learning to be comfortable with the limitations on what she can know.

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