People shouldn't

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1. People shouldn't believe I am a worse person than they are.

2. Yes. Yes.

3. I feel so misunderstood (like the song!), so alone. I feel like they

overestimate me and then when I fall from grace, they leave me there and don't

ever raise my status again. I feel betrayed. I feel powerless. I feel trapped. I

feel like they ascribe motives to all the good that I've done, so as to be able

to disregard it and justify their lowly estimation of me. I feel punished for

minor offenses and all my " credit " isn't taken into account. I feel ashamed to

feel hurt. (What I don't get with the Work is when I create THIS MANY

statements, I don't have the energy or wherewithal to track each of them down

the rabbit hole, so sometimes I edit what comes out to avoid having to go

there...)

4. I'd have no need to weigh things. I wouldn't be assessing my value in other

people's stock markets so acutetly and so (in)accurately. I'd have an inner

sense of what to do that I would follow, and trust others to do so too. I'd

attract more people who don't judge into my life.

TA People should believe I'm a worse person than they are.

If it does them good. If it makes them feel better than I am serving a purpose

for the good. If that's what they need, then so be it. If I really want to be a

good person, this is one way. (Can I go down the road: they should believe I'm

worse because I am? and list the ways I'm worse, I'm sure I could do that, but

I've got the flu and feel bad enough already. Inquiry for later: people who have

the flu shouldn't do the work!)

TA I shouldn't believe I'm a worse person than they are. Yes, somehow I always

do and I could be attracting that in others because they are simply confirming

what I communicate to them.

TA I shouldn't believe that they're a worse person than I am. Since I judge them

as being so petty, I am seeing them as worse than I am. If I'm playing that

game, it's only right that it should be played back at me. I like to think that

I give people the benefit of the doubt but don't get it in return - I should

give them the benefit of the doubt - how do I really know what they think of me?

Their actions and comments could have nothing to do with me. Probably don't at

all.