One of the worst truths I have had to learn how to accept over the last year or so in some intense therapy is that I am not like other people. There are things wrong with my programing and it all started when I was young. Maybe I was set up to fail, or just full of bad decisions. I hurt people. I have hurt myself and I need to know why and the paths to those answers start here. MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE SEE THE LIGHT - Swedish House Mafia STRANGERS - Portishead LET YOU DOWN - NF WONDERFUL NOTHING - Glass Animals ALONE - Edgars Bukovskis LOVE IS GONE - Slander WHOLE AGAIN - Matisse and Sadko
I think we all come to a point in our life where we feel that we're not supposed to be here. We feel like we don't measure up. We feel like we might be doing a job that we are not meant to do, or that we're not supposed to do. We're in a position, in a marriage, in a relationship that we're not supposed to be in, because we have done many bad things with ourselves. We have fallen hard, and we keep finding ways to fall deeper. So what does that mean? We like to tell ourselves that we don't deserve anything. We like to tell ourselves that we should be miserable, that we should punish ourselves. And to be frank, that's exactly what I have done for a very long time. I withhold a lot of fun things from myself, and then I started doing fun things for myself, and then I felt guilty. I tried to do things to make myself well, and it also made me feel like I shouldn't be doing it. And sometimes that's because of the people that we hurt and the people that we...