The Sacred Cow Syndrome

With all of the dysfunction over the years I was left feeling sad, lonely and depressed so bad that I had to seek medication to cope. Sacred cows can be debilitating to your mental and physical health and is a potential danger spiritually; I’ve seen it happen to loved ones and myself. It is important to recognize sacred cows for what they are someone else’s opinion of you not the true you then it will be easier to deal with when a situation arises that might prick your sacred cow you will be aware and prepared, it might help to handle it differently as opposed to just freaking out and if you don’t over think it or give in to the mayhem you can avoid more issues or develop new sacred cows. The evolution I went through and sometimes still go through with my sacred cows is a process that goes a little like this, let’s use my career sacred cow for example “Failure” I began with identifying the issue and when that was finished I let myself off the hook by forgiving myself for the failure, when that process was finished I was no longer angry with myself for letting other peoples opinion rule me and forgiveness for them as well. I then was able to forgive myself for not going after what I truly wanted working dead end jobs that told me I did not even deserve to be there. I told myself it was okay to feel failure but that was not where it stopped I went back to school and took up some great courses in graphic design and interior design and even achieved my degree in business management but that really was not where my heart was, that was my knee jerk reaction the ole “I’ll show them”, because of my sacred cow of failure I became desperate to achieve success. I really liked to write but my confidence was shattered at a young age so I did not think I was any good at it I avoided it and kept on trying other things that wore heavy on my nerves the deadlines and impossible projects it was exhausting. I have another friend who writes poetry and her work is so good and I was not going to put my little writings out there until I realized that what I write about has nothing to do with poetry I was not blessed with that gift, I was blessed with a different style of writing I can write about my life experiences and even though my words are not strung together in a beautiful way however I get the point across and maybe that would be something someone would want to read, understand and maybe they are going through a similar situation or thought it is about extending love not a competition so I write. Now let’s see how I dealt with the issue in depth