I’ve been working on trying to be more patient lately – particularly when it comes to interacting with my mother. After spending a good amount of time working through this with my therapist, she offered up a suggestion: “before you do a thing, take a beat… and then do the opposite.” So what I heard, basically, is that my instincts are so out of whack that the best course of action is a full one-eighty.
It’s a tiny bit of a blow, to be honest. But the worst part of this whole thing is… it seems to be working.
There’s a scene from that tv show Friends when Joey’s teaching a learning annex class on soap opera acting. At the beginning of the first class, Joey hops on to the teacher’s desk at the front of the room and levels with the students. “Before we get started,” he says, “you should know that a number of you are going to have to get much better looking…” Just be someone other than who you are.
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