I grew up with Sarcasm. My family loves to talk shit about celebrities and throw bad jokes and call names here and there. It's amazing how blindly you become sarcastic and righteous at the same time when you're emersed yourself in it. But for me, I didn't know I was. Most likely neither did my family.
The Queen of affirmation, Louise Hay talks about power of words. What we speak becomes our affirmations so she says to watch out for what words we use in our everyday lives. In other words, be careful for what you wish for because it becomes your thought and the thought becomes your wish and after all it might come true. Without knowing this fancy information, I was throwing down the wholehearted sarcasm with my siblings all day everyday and this was the thing for us to do to kill time in our precious childhood.
However, interestingly enough, I hate it when I hear entertainment news and social media gossippers being gloriously sarcastic to put down some celebrities in season or others to make their point across. It's just really screeching noise to me. I want to avoid, I don't want to hear it. Yes, I did start to become more conscious of what I say and think before I speak. And I don't know if that means I'm thinking better than them but it's just that I don't enjoy that anymore. It hurts me somehow.
Recently I came to realize that I am an empath. I've always been a sensitive kid and a grown up but especially now that I've been getting in touch with myself more than ever, I realized my senses got even more sharp and awaken. So whether I like it or not, I see a lot of folks being sarcastic just to reflect how much I was like them before. Again, Louise uses the mirror work to encourage people like me to regain our own power back. In her words, they are mirroring us. If others trigger you and push your button, it's most definitely because you have that in you. Like me, if you keep getting annoyed or even hurt by other's behavior or comment, chances are you also behave like that, or at least have in the past. By looking at others misbehaviors, I'm learning that I'm like that as well or I once have. It's not a pleasant thing to experience for sure but I'm learning to hold an accountability for what comes out of me. And believe it or not, I'm embracing myself more easily now. Everyday I'm repeating it just like how I was repetitively a miserable sarcastic child back then. I'm doing it over and over and over so that I will get it. I still catch myself being that but I feel I'm more a kind spirit now because I understand the both sides. Just like being a bilingual and bicultural, I see and live in the both shores.
I will end with this affirmation from Gabrielle Bernstein's "Miracles Now " to bridge the gap on these two shores I manage to live.
Dissolve all boundaries with LOVE.
