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Old 03-25-2007, 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by yossarian View Post
Instead of thinking of her as a problem to be solved you could try just accepting her as she is and learning to tolerate that.
I've been tolerating it for a long, long time now... since I was about 4 years old (when she was born)

I'm here simply because accepting/tolerating/ignoring it in the past, hasn't really helped out. She's still the same, and that bothers me. Being a now upgraded version (the angsty teen model v2.0) I'm finding that the negative vibes and what you guys would relate to as "low consciousness" is really sucking me down. I used to think it was her life, she's learning, live and let live, but now she's stepping on my personal growth because I can't avoid it. I can accept all I want, but trust me, in a few days from now the full moon will come out (so to speak ) and she'll be downstairs at the dinner table with something to complain about, whether it's me, or my parents, or school, etc.

Anyway. I'm still holding onto the belief that it's something I can fix. I still honestly believe that it's something I can work out (well, I want to believe, put it that way ), and adjust my actions toward. I don't wana sit back and just watch it continue on and on, while I'm getting sucked down.

So yeah, I can either avoid her completely, accept (which I'd have to say, I've already been doing up until now), or hopefully try and work out why it's all going on, and align myself to the solution. Maybe the solution ends up being "there's nothing you can really do", but at least that's somethin.
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