Posted by Dinah on October 1, 2006, at 22:39:49
In reply to My Turn, posted by Phillipa on October 1, 2006, at 12:26:04
I'm impressed you did it for fifteen years. I wouldn't last a day. I didn't even make it as a veterinary assistant for a week.
I think it's obvious how many of us have our self worth tied up in our professional lives. I know that that's wrong, but since I'm twisted in the loop of thinking that way right now myself, it's hard for me to be convincing in arguing against the point. :(
But you said yourself that you help everyone but yourself. Doesn't that mean you help others? And if you are helping others, doesn't that mean that you intrinsically have worth? So, by your own statements about yourself, doesn't that make you anything but worthless?
I understand all too well what it feels like to not be able to do what you used to do. And yet, on some level, I recognize that that is an awful way to judge worth - by employment. It would seem that caring or integrity or any number of other measures would be better.
But I can't even convince myself right now, so I understand if you aren't convinced by what I'm saying.
poster:Dinah
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