and horrors hatch

creekfiend:

Something I’ve learned recently is that there’s multiple ways you can respond when you identify hypocrisy in yourself…. like, supposing you notice that you have treated someone in a way that is not in line with your values. You COULD beat yourself up about it and be like “ugh you hypocrite, you SAY you have x values but then you treated these people in this other way”

Or, and I think this qualifies much better as “taking responsibility for your actions”: you can go “huh. I definitely do have x values and believe people should be treated in these ways… and much of the time I am able to behave in ways that are in line with those values… and yet under these specific circumstances I was for some reason not able to do that. Let’s look at those situations and people and try to find some patterns there so I can identify what types of scenarios make it hard for me to behave according to my values”

And then when you identify situations like that in the future, you can try and give yourself the time and space to really process stuff and try to remind yourself “this is a situation where behaving according to my values has been difficult in the past” which will help you be more intentional and careful in how you proceed.

Anyway. That’s hard but it’s a big relief to do because it really feels like being armed with magical knowledge lolol