When do I learn
- IC
- Mar 13, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 23, 2020
How do you have a healthy balance between helping and letting them learn to be self sufficient? When too much love becomes a controlling influence? What is a healthy balance between letting in and keeping distance?
Strangely enough, I was reading a book and came across the following advice: “One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion or passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness,” whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend”. - it spoke to me. I always thought that submission is something negative, we should fight, change, help, even if it is not asked for, because we know the best. But, is…