This is Day 6 of the 21-Day Journaling Challenge held in Nov 2011. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.
Hi everyone – Welcome to Day 6 of 21DJC! :)
Yesterday’s question was: “Who Is the Most Important Person to You in the World?“.
As usual, I had a lot of joy reading your responses. Some of you stated your mom as the most important person to you. Some of you said your father. Some of you said it was yourself. Some of you said your child(ren). Some of you said your spouse. Then there were other answers, including God / a higher power / spirit, your pet, your friends, etc.
There’s no right or wrong answer, because what’s important to us is relative. The same for all other questions posed in 21DJC – there is no such answer as a one, true answer. There’s only what’s true for yourself, and the objective of 21DJC is to invite you to reflect, connect with your inner self, and growing through the self reflection.
If you haven’t not realized, the very process of answering the questions for the past 5 days have helped to clarify your thoughts. Some people may look at the questions and think “Ah, I’ll think about it later” or “This is too much for me and I can’t be bothered to think”. But for these people, they feel resistant towards the questions because they’re in a mental fog. And this fog doesn’t go anywhere until they sit down and properly think about what they are resisting.
By thinking about who is the most important person to you in the world, it has helped you to gain awareness of who matters the most to you, and hopefully, made you realize how much you should treasure him/her. You live only once, so don’t hold back on your emotions towards this individual, thinking that you have “next time”. Be true to him/her and let him/her know of your gratitude towards him/her. Be grateful to the universe for bringing him/her into your life.
Me, the most important person in my life is my higher self. My parents are among the dearest to me in this life. So are my best friends, and good friends. And the same goes for all of you out there in this world; the very people whom I’ve dedicated my life to help to grow and live your best lives. There is no dispute that all of you are infinitely important to me.
But my higher self – the person who orchestrated my birth into this world, who has been watching me silently all this while, who has been supporting me in my life, who has been with me through thick and thin, who has always given me strength to carry on – is pretty much the reason why I’m even here, in this world. There’s still so much I don’t know; so much I have not done; so much I have to do, and I know that my higher self will be with me all the way till the end, to guide me, to support me, and to carry me whenever needed.
Because of her, I’m here. Because of her, I’m now living in alignment with my highest self. I’m far from being my highest self yet, though I’m working in that direction. The day will come when I will come full circle with her, and I look forward to that happening one day, soon.
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With that said, let’s now move to Day 6!
21DJC Day 6
After reflecting on the most important person in our life, today’s question brings us to a different emotion – but a very true one. Today, I’d like you to reflect on:
What Frustrates You?
Think about the times when you tend to feel frustrated. What typically happens in those times? What is it about those incidences that frustrate you? And why?
Your Task Today:
- Reflect and answer today’s question. There’s no word limit – whether minimum or maximum. Write as few or as many words as you want. It’s all up to what you want to express!
- Share your answer. After you are done writing, copy and paste your answer in the comments area and post it there.
- Check out other participants’ answers. Other participants will be sharing their answers too, so feel free to read and reply to their answers. This is a group course, so let’s support each other in these 21 days.
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I get frustrated when I feel powerless.
What Frustrates me:
When I don’t speak up or am in a relationship/situation where speaking up is not encouraged, and I realize I am settling for less than I would like in a relationship
When I put things off and they pile up
When I’m running late
When I can’t find things
When people tailgate
When there is needless waste
When there is wasted potential
When there are not resources to do improvements in home environment, business, and for myself
Inconsiderate, thoughtless, selfish people
Condescension, arrogance, complacency
People that outright or surreptitiously use others for their own advancement
Cruel, life-robbing lies and the trusting people who believe those lies
Seeing my friend/business partner allow people to take advantage of his generous and good nature, talk him down on a price or use up his time
Living in a body that doesn’t look or mechanically work like I feel inside
Bills, Bills Bills
Losing track of a dear old friend and just not being able to find her
Wanting to write/publish a book, but not knowing how to go about it in the best way
Just having, still, after much purging, selling , donations, having too much stuff and having big challenges letting go of more things (and not regretting it later).
To not be able to follow my heart as much as I would like to be able to (physical limitation, finances, timing), and to later see why I was led to do something, but just couldn’t show up the way I would like to have
When someone is critical and I have done my best
Giving my power away, not following my heart/gut instincts
To not honor myself…being untrue to myself in any way….any self-sabotage!
Fooling myself and trying to get away with it…grrrr!!!
Pretention
When there are two really great things I’d like to do, and they are both happening at the exact same time!
Missed opportunities (like not seeing someone when they are in town for a short while, and I didn’t know, or missing the chance to visit friends in a faraway place, or not selling the house in FL in June ’05 before the hurricanes came and drastically changed the real estate market…which drastically affected my $ situation, or allowing someone to invest my $ when I knew not to do that…again, not following my heart, not trusting my gut instinct, or just plain being complacent or burying my head in the sand.)
When I am torn between saying what i really feel versus just making nice to avoid rocking the boat. I feel insincere when i do this, but sometimes when I go ahead and say what I feel, it is very messy…the involvement that confrontation can bring up, sometimes it’s very revealing to see if someone is really up for being honest, or if it a superficial “friendship”.
I notice that I tense up, especially in my neck and shoulders, when I am frustrated.
I do remember to do some deep breaths to see me through a frustrating situation.
I also remember that acceptance is a big key when dealing with frustrating challenges.
Do the best I can, forgive myself when that applies, forgive others too, and stay as centered in my own power and as true to myself as possibe. Learn as much as I can, and let things go when speaking up would cause more harm than good. Realize that some connections with people are stronger than others, and other people come and go in my life for various reasons and purposes. Read the signs, journal, meditate, and do things that take care of myself in a healthy, positive, productive way. Stay centered and balanced. Don’t take things too seriously, find the humor when I can, and love myself through things I can change and things I can not change.
Bett
It´s easy to answer this one. I hate when I cant have the things right because I have to depend on others. When ever someone spect something from you, and you cant do it all, and the others wont care to do the things in the best way, that really frustrate´s me a lot. Sometmis is not good to be a perfectionist, because not allways the things will be resolved in the way you imagine like the perfect one. I can say frustration in my life come´s from the perception I have from the behave of other persons, and that is not nice.
I become frustrated when I can’t do something right, or something stands in the way of me doing something right. I am frustrated when I have to wait on others and am late to work or an appointment because of it. That realllly bothers me, especially when the other person could prevent the event, but does it over repeatedly. I am frustrated when I don’t get enough sleep and can’t get my baby down to bed. I am frustrated when I lend others money and have a hard time getting it back (yes, I know by now I shouldn’t lend at all..).
I guess I just get frustrated when things don’t go my way, and others actions aren’t lining up with my plans. Sometimes it is easy for me to let go, and remind myself we’re all on different schedules and have different thoughts about the way things should be. Sometimes, I can’t let go and become angry, because I believe that others and I should be on the same wavelength about certain things by now.
*on a side note, as I’ve been writing this, my Internet went out, making it impossible to continue writing, because I’m saving all my journals in Google Docs. Talk about frustration! I haven’t dealt with shoddy Internet in a while, so that was a new feeling…all is back in working order again though.*
As I’ve grown older, it is interesting to me how I deal with anger and frustration. It is still the, but somehow I am able to deal with it in a more calm way than when I was younger. I don’t have crazy road rage like I did in my early 20s. I remember many times sitting in traffic and my skin would just crawl with anger… over virtually nothing, at least nothing I could fix. Now when I
realize there is something maybe annoying, but uncontrollable, I have some relief just in knowing that I can’t do anything about it, so I must just ride it out.
I also become frustrated when I see others wronging others, or being jerks or self centered. Or just blatantly not moving forward with their lives and doing what’s best. Of course this is another one of the things I can’t control, but it is hard to watch sometimes. Everyone has their own lives, it is true. But we as humans can make such a mess of them for no good reason! I myself have done this for years, and that DEFINITELY caused me great frustration. Luckily, I wised up at some point and cleared out and fixed up the main causes of my anguish.
Now if I could just control my temper EVERY time things don’t go my way, and quiet the angry voices in my head… I know I’d be much happier. :)
When I don’t manage my time properly I feel very frustrated. This can be at work or at home, but mainly it occurs when I have ample amounts of time to get stuff done but I end up off course.
It seems that when I have the time to get personal little things done like cleaning my nails, reorganizing my clothes or reading and writing I end up “dittle dattling” like my boyfriend likes to call it and I lose track of time. It can be a simple little thing like going on the computer to add music to my iPod, then before I know it, I’ve wasted hours internet surfing and completely lost track of what I was doing. This is a frequent reoccurrence on the weekends when I have lots of time on my hands.
Often I put too much energy into things like reviewing with my emails at work and lose the time I need to complete other things that have to get done that day. Even with my personal emails, I spend way too much time fussing over my sentences when I should just be hitting the send button. In college, I would spend hours re-reading and re-arranging my reports until I was satisfying with it. It sometimes came at the cost of my own mental health.
It is true I need to learn how to structure my time better. It would benefit me very much if I could balance my energy out fairly over the things I need to get done. I need let go out of certain habits over things like emails and this will free up my time for other things.
I get frustrated by foolish people.
I am the first to say common sense isn’t that common. If it was Dr. Phil would not have a show.
I am not saying the world needs to be filled with only geniuses.
I think everyone should at least have the ability to have some logical thoughts and utilize that skill every day!
A lot! (LOL).
I have to look up the word in the dictionary just to be sure. English is not my first language and i really just have to check if frustrates is the same with the word “irritates”. Frustrates is a word i equate to somehow being irritated on the verge of quitting.
Here’s what the three definitions I got
* Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
* Harass persistently in cruel or annoying way
* Deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from’ cause to feel discouraged
Too many definitions! Anyway, I’ll answer it based on what hinder or prevent my efforts, plans or desires.
I guess what frustrates me currently (and most of the time) in my current situation is my monthly income. I tried budgeting and reducing my expenses but I can’t still get enough to be able to buy a house for my family. We are renting a pretty decent apartment but most of the time, my wife and I get into discussion of buying a new house. The thing is our budget can only afford house & lot that is outside of Manila’s business district. If we ever decide to get one, then we’ll have to endure the daily traffic (Manila’s traffic is unbelievable that a 10 minute drive becomes 45 minutes or more!)
Our apartment is convenient that it is close to everything. It is near to my and wife’s office. It is also near the shopping mall and Church. Pretty much close to places we need to be as we do our regular activities. So right now, it is a trade off between the convenience of the apartment’s location against living in our own home but have to brave the daily commute traffic.
The frustrating thing about it is the fact if only my monthly income was large enough that I am able to buy a house within the business district then there could have been no trade off decision. We can be near everything and at the same time without having to endure long lines of traffic.
Right now, I’m still deciding on working outside the Philippines because that is one thing that might increase my monthly income. I can also wait to be promoted (which I am working on by working hard and diligently). Another option is to migrate to other countries. (I’m thinking of Australia or Canada) but sadly i haven’t decided yet. And that’s my Aha moment.
I just realized i have not been making an action or a decision on this matter. I am constantly postponing my plans and in the process making a decision. I am again quoting my professor who shared that “deciding not to make a decision is a decision”. It is true. My decision is about not deciding and postponing everything. I just decided to tolerate this frustration without acting or making a decision. So today, I’ll start working and finalize the decision and I will hold myself accountable.
What Frustrates You?
Not being in control of my plan and failing to achieve it makes me feel sad.
I often get very frustrated when i feel losing up in my career and encountered people not well behaved to others and nature.
Generally, i’m a positive person but i get frustrated to see myself raising voice on any issues which can be handle better.
My biggest frustration in life is when things I want to happen, do not happen. If I could change this one thing, I think I would be happier with my life ten fold!!
For example, it’s now Sunday evening and it’s back to work tomorrow. The two things I probably enjoy the most would be going for a walk of at least an hour – time to clear the mind and get some fresh air – and going for a meal at a nice country pub. This weekend I didn’t do any walking and went to La Tasca, dare I say it, and I won’t be rushing back. The two things I enjoy most, I didn’t do again. Every weekend is the same. I know what I should do, and therefore next weekend I will aim to do it. I will effectively decide I will do those two things, and everything else can fall in place around them! I will do those two next weekend!
Another example would be at work. I am in a position of seniority, and constantly I feel I am due a good month at work, but yet again fail to hit my targets. Normally the work is there, I just don’t get it done on time. I need to get on top of this, putting first things first, ie the most important things. If this is the one thing I achieve from completing the 21 days of journalling, then it will be a tremendous success! :-)
The most frustrating situations are the ones when I am not saying something/ not doing something that i want to say/ do in order not to offend a person or maybe because I am not 100% sure in what I am going to say/do and then it turns out that I should have said /done it or I was absolutely right.
Then I am getting very frustrated with myself feeling that I am too weak / unconfident in myself.
And I am telling to myself that I won’t do it again and then it happens again and again… from simple situations at the hairdresser to more complicated ones with my friends or family.
I am trying to work on it, but it is very hard=(((
I’d make a distinction between four types of frustration I feel:
1. Frustration at silly, everyday occurrences (e.g. mess at home, bad traffic, computer not working, rushing to get ready, filling out forms, heat, waste). I acknowledge these are petty frustrations that most of the time won’t impact me, but for whatever reason on occasions will frustrate me extremely.
2. Frustration at other people’s behaviour. I only thought of this after reading other’s posts, but I definitely feel frustrated when I see people making life difficult for me or others. This could be people not doing their work, one of my wife’s moods, someone being petty and selfish, or people just generally being thoughtless.
3. Frustration at injustice in the world. When I see animal cruelty, human suffering or destruction of the environment, I feel great frustration that this kind of activity is allowed to continue. My reaction to actual act is disgust and anger, but there is real frustration at those responsible (e.g. politicians or agencies) who allow this to occur, either through ignorance, corruption, or just a lack of care.
4. Frustration with thought processes or actions. At times I may feel great confusion about my purpose or approach to life. I think I’ve got a philosophy or framework to make the most of everyday only to find it is inadequate or incomplete. I may continue to make the same old mistakes even though I tell myself to not let it happen.
I think what is common to all these types of frustration is a general feeling of being overwhelmed, uncomfortable, confused, and particularly, not being in control. I feel a great sense of peace and wellbeing when I come back to simply being in the moment when I feel myself in these moods.
What frustrates me. I get frustrated when my husband is so spontainious and I am a planner. My computer frustrates me and is constantly challengeing my patients. My mind sometimes is so stugglling to finish something, but my body gave out about 30 minutes ago. I don’t like restrictions, but still knowing its time to stop waiting to get better but enjoy better times while waiting. An active wait, makes a much better attitude to get through my day…
“What frustrates you?”
-Not having enough money
-Not living in my own place
-When certain people are away and I can’t get a hold of them
-I sometimes feel frustrated when I judge myself for relying on external things for comfort too much.
My patterns in frustrating situations have tended to be to think of myself as inherently limited, though I know in the long run that I can compensate. Better yet, I can actually GET the thing that’s been eluding me.
Something that frustrates me to no end is when I’m talking to someone and they completely cut me off by either talking to someone else or bringing up a whole different subject when I am mid-sentence. To me this is the rudest thing someone can do! It shows a total lack of interest in me and what I am talking about, like what I’m saying doesn’t matter and they could care less about it. Really it shows that they weren’t even listening to begin with. This frustrates me so much it is hard to put into words! Someone who does this a lot is my grandma. She runs a daycare, and her mind is always in a million places. Nine times out of ten her mind is not listening to what you are saying at all. She will completely cut me off mid-sentence by talking to the dog, a baby, her daycare provider, or even me! Imagine that, she will interrupt me by talking to me about something completely unrelated to anything I was just saying. My aunt is notorious for doing this as well, though she doesn’t do it as much as my grandma does.
Something else that frustrates me is the whole shelter dog situation. It frustrates me to think that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of adoptable dogs are put to sleep each day simply to create more room in the shelters for even more dogs. People are so irresponsible with their pets. They don’t get them fixed, they don’t have a secure enclosed backyard, they don’t keep them on leashes, they breed, etc. There’s so many things people can do to help the overpopulation problem besides just killing perfectly innocent dogs. It frustrates me to my core, and I feel like I want to save them all.
Something else that frustrates me is when my friends on Facebook, one in particular, try to challenge almost everything that I post. Everything is turned into an argument, or so she tries to turn them into arguments. I don’t know if she thinks she is being witty or intellectual, but actually she is just being annoying. Friends are meant to support each other, not challenge every single thing the other one says. It is so irritating and frustrating! If you don’t agree with what I am saying, then don’t subscribe to my news feed! If you are so worried about my desire to be a vegetarian, and the fact that I am struggling with it because of my lifelong addiction to cheeseburgers, then offer to support me! Don’t put me down and try to make me feel like I can’t do it or that I’m a hypocrit! Speaking of hypocrit, that is exactly what she is. She requests more information on things such as Occupy Wall Street, and when you give her the information on it that you understand to be true, she gives her completely uneducated and rude answer back on something that she just claimed to know nothing about! Talking to her (most of the time) is completely frustrating and always feels like a battle. She is constantly posting about how she is so wonderful and hot, and guys hit on her and they don’t stand a chance, etc. Then she posts about how girls who think they are so hot and god’s gift to earth are so annoying. I never noticed how annoying she was and frustrated she made me until now, at which point I am unsubscribing to her updates lol! This should already make for a more peaceful life! I don’t have a problem with friendly debates, but when you feel like your friend is completely against you and is trying to always make you feel stupid, or that they know way more than you, or starts to get aggressive and puts you down in those said debates, this is where I cross the line.
Few things that frustrates me most are:
1. Irrational discussions / Illogical reasoning
2. Inefficiencies in system
3. When I am not able to work as per my plan and there are lot of unwanted deviations/disturbances.
4. When I am not one with my inner self and loose sight of my life’s purpose.
Frustration seems to be the way of life. I am feeling frustrated all the time for any event that triggers me off. Basically I am observing that over the past 2-3 years my patience level has gone down and hence frustration has shot up. This gives me 2 signs. One is mental and physical wear and tear that has resulted in being negative about things. Second sign is that my heart is clear that I am not doing what I want to do in life and am unable to or very slow to identifying my life’s purpose. Also it has shown that I have been trying to mould into a life which I have made for myself, god knows thinking what, and am feeling stuck. As some people have righltly pointed out I understand that most of the frustration is one about me not taking care of my health and hence the lack of mental strength to handle situations positively and the second is to do things which matter and without expectancy or with the thinking its somebody else’s job. Do whatever you take it up as yours without the negative thinking and have the guts t acknowledge the steps your heart is telling you to take.
The final most frustrating aspect is how badly I fail everyday at all the habits that I want to cultivate and the miss the advice I have given for myself.
Also just rudeness at all. It bothers me to see people being rude to strangers too.
The most frustrating thing for me is when strangers, friends, or aquaintances are rude to me or my family.
Classism, racism, rudeness and people who have the audacity to hurt others in any sort of way be it mentally, emotionally or physically. Those things truly frustrate me. Outside of all that, I feel frustrated that I am in a rut and not even close to living my best life. I’ve got a lot of personal growing that I want to do. There are so many things that I want to change about how I live my life that I feel overwhelmed to the point of inactivity. Where do I start? How do I stay motivated? How do I overcome fear? How do you build belief that you can have and deserve to have the life you want when belief doesn’t come naturally to you? Fear and lack of faith really are the biggest mountains to climb aren’t they?
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At this moment, I am frustrated of:
1) bad drivers – in every aspect
2) waiting games and worse when there is no prior notification
3) no keeping of promises made or cases like “say one but do another”
4) having no respect for elderly or deserving people like not giving up seats to them, cheating off their money and love etc
5) abusers – whether they are power abusers, wife (or husband) abusers , child abusers or even pet abusers
6) gossiping or badmouthing behind someone
7) employees showing no respect ~ those who think they know it all
Thankfully, my frustration level on these lasts the most for a day, which I believe they are not worthwhile to delve further on it. Life stll has to go on anyhow!
I could probably go on for awhile with this one. Above all, I frustrate myself the most. What frustrates me? My lack of motivation, my fear, my anxiety, my inability to go out into the world and grab life by the balls. People frustrate me as well. It frustrates me when people don’t let you talk; when they cut you off and don’t want to listen to your story and they make you feel helpless and voiceless. When they just assume and are so set in their ways that what anyone else says doesn’t matter. It frustrates me when you feel like you can not speak what you feel inside. I am not too great at describing things, I wish I was but I’m doing the best I can. It frustrates me when people suffocate you and don’t give you space. When others just aren’t willing to listen and understand. It frustrates me when I don’t know what I want, when I’m lost and unsure of what step to take next. It frustrates me that I’m too concerned with what others think of me so I live by the standards of everyone else and not my own. I consider myself weird and strange but by others standards so I tend to hide in my shell. It frustrates me that I may never be happy because I don’t think for myself and I try to think as everyone else would. It frustrates me that I just can’t be myself and live my life and not worry about everyone else. I am just one big ball of frustration right now. It’s frustrating me that my laptop touchpad is so sensitive that it keeps deleting what I write or going to another sentence while I type. It frustrates me that I feel locked in a cage and don’t know how to get out.
I become frustrated when people lie to avoid taking responsibility for there actions. When people tell me they are going to do something and they know that they are not going to do it, then act as though I knew the deal all along. When people won’t let me explain my actions that have been due to their inproprierties. :( :(
Fear… Knowing that I am way to concerned about what others think – way over my own thoughts – and not being able to stop the internal dialogue. I have to consciously monitor my ‘self’… so frustrating.
I find that the things that frustrate me tend to be little unimportant things, but they tend to build up – having a never-ending list of things to get done and seeing my work mates doing nothing, drivers who don’t use their blinkers, feeling like I’m not capable of doing something, being capable of something but not being able to.
I do, however find that I can be quite calm and collected with bigger problems.
What frustrates me? The frustrating subject of Chinese, which I’m forced to study, even though I think it is waste of time (so what if I’m Asian?)
How come I was forced to study Chinese? Because I take the International Baccalaureate curriculum (only a true IB student would know how to spell that :clap: ), which requires students to study two languages. My school only offers English and Chinese, so I really don’t have a choice (it’s too late for me to change schools).
That brings me to my second point. The International Baccalaureate sets all these rules for students because they think that they understand the world better than their students, so that THEY should make all the decisions. I have to admit, it is a fair point that students should trust the curriculum because it’s been tried, tested, and true. But I still don’t think their set of rules is suitable for all students. I’d rather do things my own way, make my own mistakes, and learn from my mistakes. I just learn better that way.
I get really frustrated when I am forced to do things I really don’t want to do. And I hate it when I get dragged down by the failures of other people. It’s quite selfish for me to blame other people for failing. I know. I just don’t realize it yet…
21DJC#6: What Frustrates You?
I don’t get easily frustrated; I’m the kind of guy that’s always smiling no matter what’s the situation.
Although there is some things that some people do or say that makes me a bit bothered:
1.Wasting time
Time is a very precious thing to me, if not the most precious. Though I’ll be happy to give some of my time to someone in need of my help. But it frustrates me when people think that I have nothing else to do.
Also, it bothers me when people are late to their appointments. But in that case, I’ll just pull up my phone and read a couple of articles while waiting.
2. Laziness
It kills me to see lazy people; the type that sleep late, wake up late, and spend all their time either watching TV, eating junk food or complaining about how life sucks.
Sometimes, I just feel like screaming in their faces: “Get up you lazy pig and do something useful with your life!”
3. People that have bad taste in music
Especially those who think that rap is a type of music. (;
I realize though that what frustrates you about other people often reflects a frustration about yourself. For example, the reason I hate lazy people is probably because I was one myself in the past. So my frustration about lazy people reflects a regret about my lazy past. But I also realize that those lazy beings can be turned into early risers with some effort.
Try to apply the above on your own frustrations. Does these frustrations reflects something you hate about yourself? If so, what is it?
what frustrates me ? RELATIONSHIPS.. !! I keep giving and giving and giving but never get back.”do unto others as you would want others to do unto ” .. i keep doing that but inspite of it i am always let down by the people i have taken care of ,loved, or helped and treated with respect with my whole heart , never to get the same back from them.
It frustrates me that i have always lent my shoulders for someone to cry on but not one to console me or give me support at my time of need. I hate it when people take me for granted , when they dont respect me especially the ones to whom i have only done good and never any wrong.
i hate it when exploit the goodness and generosity in me and then discard me. i hated when people i thought are my friends were never open with me.
the only exception to all these frustrations are my parents. your parents are the only true souls in the entire world who truly cares for you and loves, and yes, it does frustrate me when i have knowingly or unknowingly done them wrong.
i hate society and their stupid rules. i hate it when people who don’t even know interferes in your life. i hate the “shoulds” that society imposes on you.
it frustrates me when i just cant figure out why is it that i cant have a good friend (apart from my parents and God who has always stood by me ) in spite of being the kind of person Dale Carnegie would have been proud of ..
yes loneliness does frustrate me sometimes when i have some spare hours and dont have a clue of what to do with it
Most of all , it frustrates me that i was stupid enough to waste four years of my precious life loving someone i shouldn’t have.
What frustrates me?
I feel frustrated when I tell myself I will complete a task but do not follow through. Usually these tasks are things that are important to creating my best life. When I procrastinate or don’t complete the task I feel as if I broke a promise to myself.
I feel frustrated when I do something I know is not in line with my core values such as doing something unhealthy or procrastinating. I Feel like I am making negative progress on goals.
All this makes me feel like there is somehing blocking me from reaching my goals. This something is within me and difficult for me to label or asses. Not understanding it fully makes it more frustrating because I’m not sure how to tackle the situation.
This one for me is very easy to answer… Myself.
What frustrates me beyond belief is me when I tell myself I’ll do something and give up halfway, me when I forget something really important, me when I lose my time on the internet and end up leaving everything for the last hour, me when I promise something and do not keep it (even if there’s a valid reason for me not to be able to).
I could keep on going but it would all come down to my lack of responsability, follow through and overall self-control.
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