Milk Cartoons
Milk Cartoons
Milk Cartoons, Personal Growth
Every time something rubbish happens and I feel really down about it, I have these moments of lucidity where I think: getting through this crisis will make me so much better prepared to face the next crisis. Also popularly known as: ‘what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger’.
That moment of lucidity is immediately followed by a moment of questioning. I have to go through this to grow stronger? Is that really necessary? Can’t I just stay the way I was and not have to deal with this instead? And is there really nothing to be learnt from pleasant experiences? When I’ve gained that measly bit of personal growth on the other side of the tunnel, I’m never really sure it was worth it.
Milk Cartoons, Self Help
You have to do quite a bit of phoning around and waiting to find a therapist, so it’s no wonder we’d all rather be therapising ourselves – with the help of a good book. So far, I’ve found that to be quite an unpleasant and disheartening experience: With every chapter dissecting my childhood trauma and every hands-on unit I know I will never do, I feel more and more like I’m at square one. If before picking up that book, I felt like a reasonably well-rounded human being who maybe had a few things to work on, when I put it down I feel like I haven’t been getting anything right at all. In fact, there seems to be so much to do that I don’t even know where to start – and so I don’t.
Milk Cartoons, Puberty
This cartoon is about puberty, but I think it applies to any stage in life. The other day, I was dabbing on eye cream before going to bed, feeling like a failure because I hadn’t been able to prevent wrinkles from appearing even though I really, really didn’t want them to. Suddenly, I thought to myself: What if my mum saw me right now, feeling sad and doubting my self-worth because of wrinkles? I could just picture her beaming at me with 1000-Watt-love and her heart clenching because I was worrying myself. Obviously, she thinks I’m worthy of love with or without wrinkles and with or without great achievements, just the same way I feel about her.
It made me look back to when I was younger and also struggling with feelings of low self-worth – mostly because I wasn’t cool enough or popular enough or attractive enough. I can see now that all the time I was so disappointed in myself, my parents loved me a lot even when I didn’t. Maybe it does help to look at yourself through the eyes of the people who love you when you’re down. Not in the pep-talkey way where you tell yourself you shouldn’t be sad because you have a lot going for you. But in the way a friend who sees you sad wants to make you feel better and make you feel that you are loved.
Milk Cartoons , Progress