Dear Girija:

You are welcome. Test for yourself “what else is out there”, look at the bigger picture. I used to be very afraid of people and the world, expecting people to hurt me. It wasn’t long ago that I realized, and it was a surprising kind of realization, that in my personal experience, the scariest part of the world was living at home with my mother.

No other individual was as scary, as hurtful and as damaging to me as my mother, not even close. Other people have been less cruel to me and often quite nice. If I wasn’t scared of all the nice people, I would have benefited from them appearing in my life.

anita