World of Relationships

World of relationships covers parents, siblings, friends, partners, associates to those relationships with supervisors. Relationships, in other words, varies depending on the people involved. Relationships flashes love, hate, anger and/or happiness around to various degrees. The emotion of happiness is preferred to some other emotions.

Happiness can't fully be understood and appreciated without experiencing some of the other emotions. Life has a tendency, sometimes, of slicing intense situations into happiness. A couple moving to their own happy beat can be slammed by words from someone in their circle of friends, for example. The words may or may not have been spoken to inflict harm. Still, the couple is left with a task of filtering those words out. The words could of remarked on time a couple spends together, in a way that shines a suspicious, sad or unfavorable light. A sibling, friend or associate spoke words that some are talking about and the very are causing stress.

How do you rinse-away hurtful words? World of relationships offers many paths. The less stressful paths are easier to stumble through. Take a look at you, your relationship. Are a few words spat in unkindness or not worth the stress it will cause a happy relationship? Should you take the time and energy to look into it? Stress stirs-in anger too. There's nothing wrong with allowing anger in. Take the next step, "give yourself permission to feel angry," Emilie Ross Raphael, Ph.D. Come to terms with anger and let it go.

Rinse-away hurtful words, anger, by talking with someone you trust. For one reason or the other, a therapist isn't an option. Address it when you're calm with the offending person. You can't talk about it with the person? Discuss it with a person you're sure is trustworthy. There's no need to tell anyone/everyone who will listen. Stop repeating the tale. Stop making yourself a victim. Start a new goal. Push away old negativity.

A path to rinse-away hurtful words is to write about it. Describe all of your feelings in a journal. Or, write about it in poems. Ask yourself questions. Why am I concerned? Why are the words hurtful? Is there a way to avoid the situation in the future? Am I over-reacting? Is the problem with whomever shared it? Should the person be in my circle? He/she has issues?

A useful path to rinse-away hurtful words is to write about them in poems. I wrote the following poem in a Free Verse. Free Verse poems has no set pattern or set line length.

Auntee's First Day Home

Auntee took baby steps

out of the car, 

"Help me, can't make it

Up steps."

She stood on the porch

Hand clinched on door knob,

Thinking, maybe

Of days before the stroke,

Blinking back tears,

Grieving for lost self.

A flower turned in

That once curled out.

Auntee stumbled forward 

My body cushioned hers.

Her sobs stabbed my heart 

As we fell indoors.

World of relationships includes the many connections existing between people. The path of choice decides how much happiness and other emotions enters relationships. It's a good choice to write about problems, situations, relationships, to understand them better. It's excellent therapy.