Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 36 : The Princess and the Pea
You remember the story – Prince wants a real princess for a wife. His mother tests out the potential bride by putting a pea under twenty matresses. The potential bride felt the pea and was declared a true princess. Because truly, “nobody but a real princess could have such a delicate skin.”
Nice story.
What do we do with the princesses in our lives? These are the people who’s skin (metaphorically, or literally) is so delicate that they feel every bump, every comment, every pea in their path.
I believe they truly suffer. I do.
And sometimes? I want to slap them out of my misery.
Visions of slapping the princesses dance happily through my head.
Sigh.
I know this to be true. There have been moments in my life when even the slightest injury felt life threatening. I can remember times when I took something out of context and used it to injur myself. I know there are times that, like the princess, I wasn’t responsible for my own wellbeing and moved away from the hard, painful things in my life.
In remembering my own actions, I find something that looks like compassion.
Whether I believe it’s a pea or a mountain, this person is suffering. Kindness comes easily once I get out of my judgements and into my heart.
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This is a very good and meaningful post. When we decide that another’s burden is not as serious as that person thinks it is, we are being competitive and acting out of ego.
But such a reminder is always timely. Thank you.
Good advice. I need to start remembering to take other people’s peas into account.
Has it ever occurred to you OG that maybe a good psychic bitch slap is the kindest and most needed thing another person needs at the moment?
It’s always interesting to take a step back to see why someone’s elses selfish behaviour triggers something raw in ourselves. It’s like we are receiving a reflection of a part of us we don’t like. I think this is what causes the reaction. Sometimes we have the patience and insight, sometimes we are bereft of those two beautiful things and it takes every single ounce of energy not to flick the tiara off the royal head.
ps. In the front of my most recent journal I wrote the quote…. “the spirit in me honours the spirit in you….” I think that fits here.
great post.
my best friend is literally the princess. everytime her cancer comes back she somehow finds the mass, even if it’s in an odd place.