tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post8385125635264691995..comments2023-12-18T17:32:03.325+00:00Comments on Kindred of the Quiet Way: I wonder if you know this bookUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-23245752444579401852012-01-23T23:41:46.120+00:002012-01-23T23:41:46.120+00:00:o) I know the feeling well!:o) I know the feeling well!Pen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-75591557319348486992012-01-23T22:03:50.416+00:002012-01-23T22:03:50.416+00:00I shall certainly get this Ember. You describe me...I shall certainly get this Ember. You describe me exactly in this post. <br /><br />I do not understand how effortlessly most people glide through social encounters. I try so hard to be like them and fail so miserably.<br /><br />I have recently been on a holiday which involved travelling for several days in the company of a small group of strangers. What agony! The holiday was wonderful and could only be done in that sort of organised group. But the requirement to socialise exhausted me. I think I succeeded in not being rude or too upsetting, (progress for me!)but I think they thought I was a bit weird, although they were very kind and did their best with me. But perhaps that is just my paranoia and in truth they did not think about me at all.<br /><br />My efforts to explain myself just seem to lead to deeper and deeper upsets and misunderstandings.<br /><br />I comfort myself with the thought that many of the saints were prickly characters. Bridget of Sweden was recorded as being hated as much as she was loved.<br /><br />And I read an obituary recently for a nun who arranged her life so as to be absent from her community for considerable stretches of time. With the unspoken blessing of her sisters! She was described as finding it easier to get on with animals than human beings.<br /><br />I believe Thomas Merton was quite a difficult character with regard to community life. <br /><br />I'm not comparing myself to these people of course. I think I have all the defects with none of the compensatory gifts! But it is comforting to know that I am not alone in my social gracelessness.DaisyAnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12680034482022415405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-11303964165963212392012-01-12T08:13:42.461+00:002012-01-12T08:13:42.461+00:00Ah - what you describe - the exchange of one foot ...Ah - what you describe - the exchange of one foot for the other - how familiar is that territory!! xPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-88887939821174717722012-01-12T02:51:01.447+00:002012-01-12T02:51:01.447+00:00Pen, I have never found you anything but sweet ~ &...Pen, I have never found you anything but sweet ~ & far more forgiving of other's foilbles than I am. I suffer severly from foot in mouth & every effort to rectify things is merely an exchange of one foot for the other.<br /><br />Someone has to provide the counter~balance to all those rampant extroverts like my Star. ☺Ganeidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17176246964466185315noreply@blogger.com