Growing up we read fairy tales that had happy endings. However, those happy endings included defeating some kind of villain. We were brought up with the big bad wolf concept. Then we have all these superhero movies that have a grand, larger-than-life villain. We’ve been exposed throughout our lives to these bad people. And, yes there are evil bad people.
While we grew up with all sorts of stories, we also came to realize (or many of us did) that we have our own stories. Our lives are also narrated.
As such, we have our own big bad wolf to highlight. Furthermore, we ourselves may be cast as tbe big bad wolf in someone’s story. Sometimes we are to take that personally and try to address it. Other times, we are just going to be typecast into such a role just because of who we are. Once you come to realize this, your mental health will not be as readily impacted.
Categories: identity, mental health, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
Interesting, we are not in control or able to manipulate much in our world, yet we often end up feeling sad or angry over outcomes, as though we hold responsibility for the process.
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Ah YeS in A World Now Globally
Of So Many Relative Moralities
Surely The Saint Will Be
The Sinner
And The Sinner
Will Be The Saint
Depending On If the
Moon Is Blue or Magic
In Dreams Not Yet Felt
Sensed or Met
In New Colors
Of Life
Still To Come
To Be For Those Unafraid
to Explore More As i Return
to Jonathan David Haidt’s
Exploration of What Makes
The Difference Between More Open
Minded Liberal or More Closed Minded
Conservative Folks A Simple Barometer
(Reactions to A Public Dancer Work Just As Great, HAha)
oF A ‘STatue of David’ And Seeing THE ALL Aesthetic
Gift or Just
A Much
Smaller Gift
In Disgust
That Still Brings
Life to Bear And Bare for Real…
This is Life to Some Michelangelo
Is A Villain For Sculpting ‘David’ this
Way to Others He Just A Natural
Hero Portraying the
Reality of
Bigger
Pictures to Give
And This Is Life Boats
Do Need Sails to Explore
Naked New Seas And Return
To Clothed Harbors to Escape
Bad Weather’s of Life True too…
There Is No Peace Inhaling Now Or
Love Exhaling Without Understanding
The Differences
That Do Still Make
Us Naked And Clothed
Enough Whole Humanity Complete
Yet of Course Open Minded Folks Naturally
Have the Advantage For This As Life is Not
Fair Yet Never the LeSS A Work oF Art For A More Perfect Union Indeed..:)
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A very good and very true post. You’re right that we cannot control how we are perceived by other people, even though I know we wish we could.
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