What's holding you prisoner?

What’s holding you prisoner?

Richard Armitage as Guy of Gisborne and Jonas Armstrong as Robin of Locksley in Robin Hood 1.8 My cap.

~ by Servetus on September 11, 2012.

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29 Responses to “What’s holding you prisoner?”

Fear of failure, of not being good enough. The chronic physical pain. My body doesn’t always cooperate with my spirit.

fedoralady said this on September 11, 2012 at 3:56 am | Reply
for me, fear of failure (in awareness of having failed). The past. Wondering which commitments I need to jettison.

servetus said this on September 11, 2012 at 4:08 am | Reply
Oh dear. Where to begin? Too much work. Not enough faith. More bills than money (the fact that there is too much work and not enough $ is a whole other can of worms).

Lack of discipline. Easily side tracked. Forgetting about G-d. Lack of focus. Living in the future, living in the past. Forgetting to pray! Forgetting to count blessings. Not making time to exercise and eat right. This one really bugs me! Because I know better — I used to do health and wellness couseling!

But I think I am holding myself prisoner everyday, but forgetting to take care of myself and to focus on what is important. I will leave it at that for now.

@Rob said this on September 11, 2012 at 4:12 am | Reply
- So many things. I think these, two. I want one or two to attack, but there’s a whole hydra there.
  
  servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 4:19 pm | Reply
My own lack of self-motivation…

kathrynruthd said this on September 11, 2012 at 7:58 am | Reply
- … or a lack of something to truly desire?
  
  servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 4:19 pm | Reply
  - Or fear of failure…I’m very good at being an ostrich
    
    kathrynruthd said this on September 13, 2012 at 7:18 pm | Reply
The unkindness of others……..xenophobia, selfishness etc.

Jennie said this on September 11, 2012 at 9:42 am | Reply
- there’s a lot of unkindness abroad these days.
  
  servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 4:19 pm | Reply
Past disappointments, exhaustion, and yes, fear. I am going to reblog this and post your link. Thanks for always making us think. Have a great day!

Mujer Tropical said this on September 11, 2012 at 10:47 am | Reply
Fatalizm

Joanna said this on September 11, 2012 at 11:37 am | Reply
- that’s a really hard one. Why change if nothing will ever get better?
  
  servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 4:20 pm | Reply
Practical me, as I prepare for the future. (“golden handcuffs”)
Worry about family.
Self-consciousness.

zan said this on September 11, 2012 at 1:24 pm | Reply
- ah, self-consciousness — I know that one, too.
  
  servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 4:21 pm | Reply
it’s the time of year (Jewish high holidays) when I think about this, but I have no answers. I was just thinking about my experience of last year when I realized G-d wants me to be free, too — and whether I’ve moved any closer to that. I hope we can all shake off our internal jailers a little this year.

servetus said this on September 11, 2012 at 4:07 pm | Reply
The high holidays are about a kind of honesty that can set you free. For me, I am a prisober of physical limitations, financial limitations — the shackles are definitely on the physical plane

Leigh said this on September 11, 2012 at 7:55 pm | Reply
- it’s really helpful to have to recite the repeated enumerations of all the sins.
  
  servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 4:15 pm | Reply
Wow. What a question. At the moment I don’t feel imprisoned. I’m kinda living life how I want, granted for the moment I have that job but in a couple of weeks I won’t have it and that thought has freed me from the concern and worry related to the job. In a few weeks I’ll be financially limited but at the moment I have money and am doing what I want in my personal life. It’s exhilarating. I’m sure the crash back to reality will be much less pleasant. “All those who wander are not lost”, JRR Tolkien.

Snicker's Mom said this on September 11, 2012 at 10:30 pm | Reply
- What an answer. I appreciate the quote from Tolkien — thank you so much for this.
  
  servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 4:16 pm | Reply
Expectations -my own and others of me, commitments, obligations. All of these, pulling on both my time and my wallet. Some days I think would happily walk away from all the things I thought that I wanted in order to just BE….unfettered, unexpected, uncommitted. Sadly not today…I am expected, so I’d better go.

Obscura said this on September 12, 2012 at 3:17 am | Reply
- this is an interesting dilemma for me, too. Both the wallet and the time issue. The wallet, because I’m starting to realize what the things I can’t live without really are — and they’re not necessarily what I expected — but also just exactly how much certain kinds of notions of “who I am” cost in terms of term and thus undermine the notion I have of “who I want to be.”
  
  servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 4:15 pm | Reply
  - Acknowledging these feelings has created other ones vis a vis my children…if I accept that I see them as imprisoning me, what kind of mother does that make me? Is there a difference between feeling this way and acting upon it? Heavy!
    
    Obscura said this on September 13, 2012 at 9:10 pm | Reply
    - Heavy, indeed. How Judaism answers that question is a major part of the reason why I became a Jew — Judaism would say, there is a difference. Acting in loving ways (following the commandments) is pleasing to G-d; feelings are nice if they come along but the point is that you act lovingly. I found this a huge relief after my childhood.
      
      servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 9:18 pm | Reply
      - I have no plans to jump ship…my weekend getaway not included Just putting it out there has been surprisingly cathartic.
        
        Obscura said this on September 13, 2012 at 10:05 pm | Reply
        
        I also find it hugely relieving just to say things that you aren’t supposed to say.
        
        servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 10:07 pm | Reply
I hold myself in a pattern of self fear of not doing well. I try to not get things wrong that if I think I will I do not do them. I am working my way out of this or trying to. I am working on going to school to become an OTA , this will take some time to. One step at a time. So many years out of school and in some classes not doing well I have always thought that I would fail at collage, but I want more.

katie70 said this on September 13, 2012 at 6:10 am | Reply
- I know that fear, too — not even wanting to try if there’s a good chance I’ll fail. Hang in there on college and everything.
  
  servetus said this on September 13, 2012 at 4:14 pm | Reply
  - Thank you!
    
    katie70 said this on September 14, 2012 at 3:26 am | Reply
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