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[honeymom]

Over the years I have found that everyone has a dark side. Most people are balanced,integated and are able to use strength and power, light and dark to live in this world. The dark side helps us push through, when being nice would get your ass kick. The light is always there pulling you out of the dark. So, one might say, living in the gray is

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[txreisende]

*hug* I know what you mean. This is why I dance the way I do, because it's the closest I can find to a safe way to let any of the dark things out. This is also why I drive the way I sometimes do, and fight. My faith demands things of me that my darker self doesn't want to give, and right now I am learning the hard lesson of turning the other cheek. Not in passivity, not in letting something happen to me, but as an active choice to extend grace where extending grace has gotten me burned before. I don't want to, I want to scream at the sky and be isolated and selfish and self-righteous, but those are neither right, nor what my God asks of me. Doing something only because it is right, knowing that it will be uncredited, possibly even unknown, by the subect on whose behalf you act, not knowing if it will be of any tangible benefit to the subject, is an uncomfortable thing. It is, in purest form, an act of faith. It is also very lonely. If I have a teacher it is my own mistakes. There are people who inspire me, both as good examples and

[vix_kitten]

I know how you feel. That's why I kickbox, to get rid of some of my frustration and anger in a way that doesn't mean I'm taking it out on someone unwisely or unfairly... The pads never complain.