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 %REPAIR FIX SELF ESTEEM FEEL GOOD BETTER RIGHTEOUS 071018

When our Self-Esteem is DOWN we can do many things to lift
our Self-Esteem up --- with diverse consequences:

 1.  Affirm different standards for high self-esteem.
 2.  Choose friends who will affirm us as we are now.
 3.  Teach friends to affirm us as we are now.
 4.  Demand that friends affirm us as we are now.
 5.  Look less carefully for our imperfections.
 6.  Relax more and find religious leaders to affirm us.
 7.  Eat more to feed our depression more fully.
 8.  Find more people who are inferior to us now.
 9.  Punish people who are superior to us now -- for pain.
10.  Play more Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.
11.  Shift from our addictions to other better addictions.
12.  Associate only with people who will be totally loyal.
13.  Form new coalitions to achieve total invulnerability.
14.  Be careful to avoid the dangers of intimate relations
15.  Select our Absolute-Truth more carefully and wisely.
16.  Select our weapons of Mutual-Self-Destruction wisely.
17.  Be more careful in concealing our vulnerabilities.
18.  Select more easily achieved goals to focus upon.
19.  Pay more friends to sing our praises in public.
20.  Kill enemies who expose our points of vulnerability.

     Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom.

                         (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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