What are you most attached to?

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1. Elizabeth Cottrell February 24th, 2011

   Great question, Mary, and the answer, if we’re being honest, will tell us a lot about ourselves and should inform our priorities and energy focus. I am more attached to praise and pleasing others than is probably healthy, but the flip side of that is that making others happy makes me happy.

   Your question reminds me of a haunting Irish ballad I heard on NPR just recently, sung in a minor key:

   “Adventure comes and some men run,
   And this is their sad story…
   Some get drunk on demon rum
   And some get drunk on glory.”

   So an interesting related question to the one you just asked is, not counting liquor or drugs, what is your inebriant of choice?

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   • Mary Allen February 24th, 2011

     Oh, how I understand the attachment to praise and pleasing others. Makes me happy too. Really acknowledge you for being so open and honest about this one. We can loosen that attachment by really learning how to give that acknowledgment to ourselves. Thank you for sharing the quote, what a perfect way to sum up the “addictions.”

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