To me, your story of The Kid could have a happy ending or an unhappy ending, depending on whether she deliberately chooses to feel good or resigns herself to feeling bad --
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regardless of what happens.
An unhappy ending would be: The Kid thinks to herself: "Self, you are in a Big Mess, that has to be cleaned up or you'll be miserable and you'll probably end up in jail or on the street or beat up by hooligans. Also you must get yourself out of this Big Mess because otherwise you will feel guilty and lonely and defeated. You owe it to the world to focus on your Big Mess and cleaning it up."
Now that I write it out, I see that that would actually be a
comedy.
Happy ending for The Kid: "Self, everything's ok right now, I am safe and supported. I am infinite abundance, power, and joy, and I get to choose who I am going to be going forward, regardless of who I've been and what has happened in the past. That feels pretty good! Right now, in evaluating my CURRENT situation, I would strongly prefer to have more friends, and I would strongly prefer being a free citizen to being a jailbird or fugitive (possible CURRENT consequences of my past actions). My life is a delightful array of fun challenges, and I can see some steps I could take to guide my life in the direction I'd like it to go: for instance, I could take on Being Integrity. Being Integrity, for me, would mean joyfully allowing abundance and spreading it around in the direction of folks who lost stuff to me, and I think it would feel good to be able to apologize to them and commit to making amends in a way that will have them, as well as me, feeling very good! Hmm, now that I think about it, another way to feel good would be to invent a really good lock that will help people to secure their stuff from people like the one I was being, and incidentally to bring me lots of profit! Being integrity might also (but not necessarily) mean turning myself over to the cops, and telling them my story about how I'm committed to making amends for my theft, and outlining my ideas for how I'm going to do that, my great idea for locking people like me out, and by the way, maybe I could talk to some kids in schools about the consequences of having no integrity! You know, like Community Service in place of jail time?
And Being Integrity might mean some jail time. That'll give me some great material for my book -- people love true stories about redemption and triumph!
What a great and exciting life I am living! My life is filled with opportunity for expanding more and more into the infinite joy, power, and abundance of Who I Really Am. That feels really, really good.
Signed,
The Kid