Aug 1, 2026 · 37 min · 10 segments
random thoughts on the first day of august books: the oxford illustrated history of christianity the liveship traders - hobb tuesdays with morrie - albom songs: secrecy - ethan regan hurt me…
As any relationship grows, parental, friendship, lover, etc., the stakes become higher regarding separateness and differentiation.
The emotional impact of others has weight, and that weight, if allowed, can become such that you begin to lose yourself and who you are by becoming accommodating.
Make sure you're not the only one to notice, or you will only become someone's mirror.
Yeah, you're not them.
They're not you.
Yeah, control, emotional impact, others has weight.
I don't know.
Maybe that speaks for itself.
Yeah, there's a dynamic in there.
between people and families and different things and somewhere in there is like, who are you? Who are you? Can be relationships.
Rewriting history.
Man, we see this a lot, don't we? Oh my gosh, you have so many different versions of a story.
I don't know.
I don't know.
What actually happened versus what we tell ourselves happened, which is another little twist.
Hey, by the time I get done with this podcast, we caught a hundred fish.
So we literally caught 50 fish and I honestly caught a fish on every cast for, I don't know, 20 minutes at least.
And then it was, you know, anyway, it was pretty fun.
That actually happened.
But yeah, next week it'll be 150 fish and they were all 10 pounders.
Embellishment.
But rewriting history.
Yeah.
What's the story? Especially the story we tell ourselves, you know, of our role that we played in something.
As any relationship grows, parental, friendship, lover, etc., the stakes become higher regarding separateness and differentiation.
The emotional impact of others has weight, and that weight, if allowed, can become such that you begin to lose yourself and who you are by becoming accommodating.
Make sure you're not the only one to notice, or you will only become someone's mirror.
Yeah, you're not them.
They're not you.
Yeah, control, emotional impact, others has weight.
I don't know.
Maybe that speaks for itself.
Yeah, there's a dynamic in there.
between people and families and different things and somewhere in there is like, who are you? Who are you? Can be relationships.
Rewriting history.
Man, we see this a lot, don't we? Oh my gosh, you have so many different versions of a story.
I don't know.
I don't know.
What actually happened versus what we tell ourselves happened, which is another little twist.
Hey, by the time I get done with this podcast, we caught a hundred fish.
So we literally caught 50 fish and I honestly caught a fish on every cast for, I don't know, 20 minutes at least.
And then it was, you know, anyway, it was pretty fun.
That actually happened.
But yeah, next week it'll be 150 fish and they were all 10 pounders.
Embellishment.
But rewriting history.
Yeah.
What's the story? Especially the story we tell ourselves, you know, of our role that we played in something.
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