A series of art journal pages where I pick a word for each letter of the alphabet and journal about it day by day. To find out more about the beginning of this project, please read the first post here.
For the letter S, I chose the word sorry. It’s a bit sad I guess…or maybe just blushing all the time when you do something silly and go “oops!” I feel that I am sorry for so many things at times and not sure if that means I’m just not confident enough about myself. We shouldn’t be apologizing all the time, right? And when we make mistakes, we just have to learn… but it’s hard at times. Sorry for this… sorry for that…bah… it’s a rainy day here (again) so I guess I’m just feeling melancholy…
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I think having remorse or even being aware of mistakes is what makes people beautiful and human. Lovely page Linda. I’m headed downstairs to work on mine shortly! Keep going… happy creations from germany, tj
what a wonderful comment! that totally made me happy…thanks
I feel the same way! Lately I’ve been trying very hard *not* to profusely apologize when I shouldn’t be apologizing, such as when I’m sick and can’t make a meeting or when a friend asks me to do something I am unable to do (or requests something ridiculous). I just say “I’m unable to _______. Please let me know how it goes” or “I wish I could help, but I’m unable to. I send you all my good wishes.” It’s hard for me because my tendency is to apologize, feel guilty forever and ever, and then apologize some more.
I know what you mean! I wonder if it’s a cultural or family aspect … but I think that we have to learn and just let go instead of feeling sorry…it’s hard though!
I’ve had that look on my face far too many times. Hard to break conditioning. That’s what “good little girls” do.
Yeah…I wonder where all this passive conditioning of apologetic-ness comes from…sigh!
I’m trying to be conscious of that too and not apologize for something that I’m not responsible for, or just because I don’t want to do something. The journal page is very sweet!
thanks, bobbi. yeah, i think it’s something we have to remind ourselves at times…
E’ difficile a volte avere consapevolezza dei propri errori e chiedere scusa, per questo riuscirci ci deve rendere orgogliosi di noi stessi,in quanto penso che sia una dimostrazione di forza e non di debolezza.
La tua pagina è molto dolce, Linda!
grazie…mi piace pensare in quel modo… una forza non debolezza… grande…