Comments on: Words Can Harm. Words Can Heal. [Part 4] http://samsara.ihostyou.com/words-can-harm-and-heal-4/ Embracing the Journey Mon, 21 May 2012 10:22:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: J. http://samsara.ihostyou.com/words-can-harm-and-heal-4/#comment-6412 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:47:43 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/words-can-harm-and-heal-4/#comment-6412 Hey Sam. I just wanted to let you know that I took the time to copy/paste this article into an email and emailed it to myself. I printed it out and stuck it on my mirror where I read it every weekend while glancing at it every day. It's been about five months or so I imagine and I haven't been eaten up with sarcasm. I also have something figured. The more sarcastic I was the more angry I became on the inside. Then I couldn't be sarcastic enough Thanks for being cool. No longer sarcastic - Your friend, J Hey Sam.

I just wanted to let you know that I took the time to copy/paste this article into an email and emailed it to myself. I printed it out and stuck it on my mirror where I read it every weekend while glancing at it every day.
It’s been about five months or so I imagine and I haven’t been eaten up with sarcasm. I also have something figured. The more sarcastic I was the more angry I became on the inside. Then I couldn’t be sarcastic enough

Thanks for being cool.
No longer sarcastic -
Your friend,
J

]]> by: samsara http://samsara.ihostyou.com/words-can-harm-and-heal-4/#comment-191 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:53:46 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/words-can-harm-and-heal-4/#comment-191 Well... It was hard to break for me. I remember often as a teenager using it because it was "my" way to "show my friends" I was clever. As I get older I find other ways to be clever. Word puns, jokes at myself, facetious pokes at politics, flip statements...cute anecdotes, repetition of punchlines... I have grown sensitive to when I use sarcasm. It hits me that I don't feel good about myself - that I lacked the courage to be honest. I really do think sarcasm is repressed resentments coming out. I wonder if that may be true for you? Well… It was hard to break for me. I remember often as a teenager using it because it was “my” way to “show my friends” I was clever.

As I get older I find other ways to be clever. Word puns, jokes at myself, facetious pokes at politics, flip statements…cute anecdotes, repetition of punchlines…

I have grown sensitive to when I use sarcasm. It hits me that I don’t feel good about myself - that I lacked the courage to be honest. I really do think sarcasm is repressed resentments coming out. I wonder if that may be true for you?

]]> by: Mon http://samsara.ihostyou.com/words-can-harm-and-heal-4/#comment-186 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:12:00 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/words-can-harm-and-heal-4/#comment-186 I'm guilty of sarcasm. Not just in a fun way but I've also used it in a hurtful way. It's hard to break that habit! And I should know better. I’m guilty of sarcasm. Not just in a fun way but I’ve also used it in a hurtful way. It’s hard to break that habit! And I should know better.

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