Stop Doing That Sh*t by Gary John Bishop

Author:Gary John Bishop
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

THE SCROOGE IN ALL OF US

One of my favorite books is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. If you’ve never read the book, you’ve most likely heard of the central character, Ebenezer Scrooge. The reason why I love this story goes well beyond the obvious. You see, our old friend Scrooge is a case study in everything I’ve been talking about thus far. In fact, after reading this book, you might well never look at that tale in the same light ever again!

When Scrooge looked back on his life, he began to experience the discomfort of how he had shaped himself, something that he had always blamed on others. He says: “These are the shadows of things that have been. They are what they are, do not blame me!”

He couldn’t be with the notion that he had hardened himself, that his cynicism was a self-imposed exile after he lost the love of his life. He had concluded that he could never have love or be loved and built his life around that conclusion. He constructed a reality where he found fleeting joy, a slew of temporary fixes, accruing more and more money, but the conclusion he had made ate away at him day after day. No one could get in, not even his loved ones. He dismissed their approaches out of hand. He could not see what was right in front of his face, as it was a massive contradiction to his own subconscious belief, so he plowed on anyway, perpetuating his own conclusions and denying anything that might be a threat to that reality.

Just like you do.

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