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**Roamsaffots** · 05-25-2009, 04:47 AM

if she can't love you and trust you for YOU.... then she wasn't a great friend. I have friends who may disagree with me, or think i am kooky, but they love me and support me.
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Her way of loving and supporting me is pushing me to get mental help for the grief I'm supposedly not dealing with and the schizophrenia that it's manifesting as. We've talked about it and to her seeing dead people and acknowledging ghosts is one type of crazy, a harmless crazy that she loved me for, but talking to them, especially calling to them to talk to them, well I guess it crossed some "line" of hers and she just can't accept (for whatever reason) that it's real. It does not deter me in any way from walking my path, it just saddens me that brutal honesty will inevitably lead to me walking away from people who used to walk with me. We still hang out, but as the days go on, she knows me less and less.

In this case, to me, saying that it doesn't matter what other people think is like a cop-out. We ALL care what other people think...everyday. When you wake up and decide to shower and brush your hair and put on clothing, you are making decisions relating to how you intend to present yourself to the world (boss, coworkers, clients, family, friends, etc), to make people think what you want them to think about you. If no one ever cared what other people thought, it just wouldn't work. Again, I don't think anyone should allow another persons opinion to hold them back, but to me it's more of a process of evaluating the opinion, accepting it for what it is, and then making a decision to either validate it or not.

The original question here was what do people close to you think about "spirits, guides, and so on." I would like to point out, there is a huge difference telling your boss that you meditate daily and are a spiritual person to telling your boss that you frequently communicate with the dead. The answers here will vary, I think, depending on what each persons "and so on" amounts to.

05-25-2009, 04:47 AM	#13
Roamsaffots Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 509 Senior Member	if she can't love you and trust you for YOU.... then she wasn't a great friend. I have friends who may disagree with me, or think i am kooky, but they love me and support me. : Her way of loving and supporting me is pushing me to get mental help for the grief I'm supposedly not dealing with and the schizophrenia that it's manifesting as. We've talked about it and to her seeing dead people and acknowledging ghosts is one type of crazy, a harmless crazy that she loved me for, but talking to them, especially calling to them to talk to them, well I guess it crossed some "line" of hers and she just can't accept (for whatever reason) that it's real. It does not deter me in any way from walking my path, it just saddens me that brutal honesty will inevitably lead to me walking away from people who used to walk with me. We still hang out, but as the days go on, she knows me less and less. In this case, to me, saying that it doesn't matter what other people think is like a cop-out. We ALL care what other people think...everyday. When you wake up and decide to shower and brush your hair and put on clothing, you are making decisions relating to how you intend to present yourself to the world (boss, coworkers, clients, family, friends, etc), to make people think what you want them to think about you. If no one ever cared what other people thought, it just wouldn't work. Again, I don't think anyone should allow another persons opinion to hold them back, but to me it's more of a process of evaluating the opinion, accepting it for what it is, and then making a decision to either validate it or not. The original question here was what do people close to you think about "spirits, guides, and so on." I would like to point out, there is a huge difference telling your boss that you meditate daily and are a spiritual person to telling your boss that you frequently communicate with the dead. The answers here will vary, I think, depending on what each persons "and so on" amounts to.
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