For Abra

[Guest guest]

Abra wrote,

>>I get a sense that you don't see

it as interesting, perhaps more like a (mind) game? Since I

don't really understand what it is that you find funny, maybe

we can begin there. Whatever it is that you're trying to say

with your post, I'm not getting yet.<<

Well, case in point. I was expressing appreciation for what I read into

your post -- to me it was a (humorous, as it applied to me and my behavior)

commentary on how we react when we think we are " helping, " for example...when I

read this:

>>Behavior of the *average* Helper

> > (between Healthy and Unhealthy): " Increasingly self-important

> > and self-satisfied, feel they are indispensable, although

> > they overrate their efforts in others' behalf. ---

> > Overbearing, patronizing, presumptuous. " :-)<<

I just cracked up as I saw myself in that. I notice you also smiled, and

again as you said " Just trying to be helpful :-). "

So what you pointed out was indeed interesting to me...and funny. Sometimes

the recognition that takes place in my undoing makes me laugh out loud. I

didn't see you as playing mind games, and at the same time, everything we say

and think can be seen as a game of the mind...a fun game.

Love, Carol