Much Less Sarcasm and More Amends

Much of my communication with others was hiding behind sarcasm as humor.  I still do it, but not nearly as much as I used to.  Today I used some sarcasm as humor at a meeting and was able to immediately make amends to the group and to those it was directed towards.  That is tremendous progress towards improving my communication and relationship with myself and with others.

I now have the empathy to know how much sarcasm can hurt others, don’t like how it makes me feel—at best it is like a warm glowing icky— and pushes others away from as if saying “talk to the hand”.  Instead of feeling guilt and shame for how badly I used to behave I can have self-compassion for doing the best I could with the tools that I had.


I am grateful for the courage to overcome my hiding behind sarcasm, the overwhelming desire for better relationships as motivation to change my behavior and the love of my friends to allow me to make mistakes and still love me.

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