Self-Pity

 Self-pity is not a good tool to have in our tool box of responses to whatever comes up in our day.  The spiritual path, the recovery path, the growth in human potential path puts self-pity into the memory box.  Sanity does not forget the past.  The past mess can be useful in reminding us of how we have grown, and in being able to relate to others in their still-wallowing self-pity.  Our story becomes one that helps others relate to us and listen because they come to realize we were once just like they are now, an incomprehensible stage of life.