How might Caps deal with disappointments?

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Posted by cheekyfaerie
It's like menstrual cramps that, instead of going away, get stronger and stronger until they finally wear you down.

One or two of those things happen? Fine. Whatever. I live my life at an 8 or higher. You just deal with it. Enough things start adding up or a particularly bad thing happens (like an important death) tho and it starts to wear me down. Then it's cry in the shower time. Allow myself a wallow, recompose myself and carry on.

ps. I may seem distant, but I'm still here. The wheels in my head are just spinning more than usual.
I totally agree - most just a pick up, dust off, back to the wheel but death or something big or a lot of stuff going on at the same time - whoa - a big deep breath, got to let the steam out too, and a generous wallow allowance - we recompose nicely!
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Posted by cheekyfaerie
It's like menstrual cramps that, instead of going away, get stronger and stronger until they finally wear you down.

One or two of those things happen? Fine. Whatever. I live my life at an 8 or higher. You just deal with it. Enough things start adding up or a particularly bad thing happens (like an important death) tho and it starts to wear me down. Then it's cry in the shower time. Allow myself a wallow, recompose myself and carry on.

ps. I may seem distant, but I'm still here. The wheels in my head are just spinning more than usual.
I totally agree - most just a pick up, dust off, back to the wheel but death or something big or a lot of stuff going on at the same time - whoa - a big deep breath, got to let the steam out too, and a generous wallow allowance - we recompose nicely!
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I agree with this. We all as humans come back up eventually. Takes more time for some than others
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Posted by cheekyfaerie
It's like menstrual cramps that, instead of going away, get stronger and stronger until they finally wear you down.

One or two of those things happen? Fine. Whatever. I live my life at an 8 or higher. You just deal with it. Enough things start adding up or a particularly bad thing happens (like an important death) tho and it starts to wear me down. Then it's cry in the shower time. Allow myself a wallow, recompose myself and carry on.

ps. I may seem distant, but I'm still here. The wheels in my head are just spinning more than usual.
I totally agree - most just a pick up, dust off, back to the wheel but death or something big or a lot of stuff going on at the same time - whoa - a big deep breath, got to let the steam out too, and a generous wallow allowance - we recompose nicely!
You and I both have very fixed charts with an abundance of earth. We're trudgers.
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that is such a good description - reminds me of the elephants who walk for months in the desert to find water - faithfully following their leader ... you just wonder how in the world they ever make it but they do!

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Honestly, I react with isolation and only sharing my deepest feelings with my diary. I've learned that I have to involve friends and family, but I wont tell them everything - not every feeling. I work through it myself, and when I'm ready I'll open up to others.

I don't mind talking about feelings, but only when I processed those feelings by myself - alone! If I cry I cry alone! At funerals I will do EVERYTHING I can to keep those tears hidden, and then lose myself when alone. Maybe I'll go for a long walk, and will only return when my eyes aren't red. I'll find ways to deal with the pain.

I did have a life crisis some time ago, of course related to my career, and in that case I ignored everyone around me. I isolated myself for a very very very long time because I felt like a failure... and that's when you learn who you can count on. My two best friends, one Taurus w./sag. moon and a Sagittarius w./pisces, moon, both stuck with me through the harsh times and understood how to behave around me.

It can however be hard to be around a cap. in the midst of a life crisis. My father is a cancer with a cancer moon as well, and he worries - sometimes for no bloody reason. I've learnt my lesson and if I'm going through something I'll put on a smile around him - I cannot deal with my own crap while feeling guilty about hurting I'm someone I love.

So in the end it all depends on the intensity of the feelings involved. Most losses can be dealt with more swiftly than others, while others can be devasting.

If I were to cope with the loss of something/someone extremely important to me - a loss that would turn my world, as I know it, upside down - then I would isolate myself until I processed those feelings. The worst thing anyone could do would be trying to soften me with sweet talk, or looking at me with concern in their eyes. I would expel them from my life! However, if the people in my life completely ignored my pain I would also consider erasing them from my heart. It's a wierd combination of being there without being there.

/LeGoat.

Sun: cap. Moon: taurus. Ascen: Gem.