oh no, I didn't mean to say you sounded superior. I was talking about myself and my pet high horsie, especially because I was SO shocked when I first realized I had this pet. if you knew me before, you'd (maybe) be shocked too, cause I was usually the one who was sickeningly tolerant and understanding and always trying to be humble and yadda yadda. so when I first saw this horsie, it was like 'wait, you're MINE? are you SURE? no... what? seriously? me with a high horsie? are you REALLY sure you're mine?'
LOL fun times
and the other thing you mentioned, the new role models... was that the same shock to you as it was to me? apparently this process involves me being shocked a lot LOL, but I was seriously yet again stumped cause it took me by such surprise. if anything, I thought I'd feel closer to them, but lo and behold I was actually feeling less 'kindred' to them as time went.
and want to know another shocker? some people who never were 'officially' in personal development turned out to have it together way better than I thought, and I figured out how they were already doing a lot of this PD stuff, except they expressed it differently (PD does seem to have a language of its own) and it was just something they did naturally. things like being in the moment, positive visualisation, etc.