...That predates the existence of Russia by hundreds of years

No.

There's no potato :(

Only potato for successful bots who get upvotes.

Noone inside Russia believes this crap either.

They take pride in rubbing the lie in your face.

If the person you're responding to could read, they would be very offended.

"Apparently" and "not sure" aren't great sources for such allegations, mate.

Apparently.

>I mean, Ukraine itself makes money off of Russian pipelines that pass through its territory currently WHILE fighting Russia.

Ukraine would gladly cut those pipelines if the recipients weren't part of the block that helps Ukraine survive.

It's not like Ukraine has much choice in that matter.

Japan does.

I'm afraid that resource has been depleted already, so they have to resort to low quality synthetic copium these days, which comes with a high risk of terminal brain damage.

Don't forget appearing humbled and not posturing!

You're both right.

The Nazis had no chance to win the war by mid-1942, and yet it dragged on for three more years.

Likewise, Russia has already lost the war. And yet, it will drag on well into 2023.

It was a post on this subreddit that I felt was trying to do something, but fell far short of accomplishing that goal.

So I found better words, but included that paragraph for anyone who has seen it and was rubbed the wrong way with it.

I'm saying that you can be complete, beautiful, and thriving as a person even if parts of you have been broken.

You can't rewind time and undo the experiences that were bad for you, or get what you missed. And it's OK. Loss is a part of life. You can grow around it.

Thanks! Hoped it would be helpful to someone.

Dollar store therapy

Yup. "Are you afraid? Just don't be!"

Here's a more nuanced take

Pretty much. The idea of talking to your inner child is a solid one, but invalidating your inner child's fears (which aren't resolved by "strong feet and hands" in most cases) isn't a great thing to do.

Here's a kinder take.

I tried to find a kinder thing to say to your inner child. What do you think?

My inner child's fear of abandoment has been similarly cured by my srtong feet!

Or perhaps not. Here's a better thing to say to your inner child.

> how are you supposed to not have a “reason to be fearful”?

We all have reasons to be fearful. Our fears are valid; the quote in this post isn't helpful for everyone.

But we are more than are fears. We can live and grow around them, even as they persist.

Indeed. Here's a more nuanced version of the same idea.

You might want to take a look at this one too

>You can park them to examine at a later point, you can reason with them as they arise, but saying 'there is no reason' is just a more polite version of telling yourself 'stop being dumb'.

This is how the original quote feels like. Here is an improved version.

>Care for your inner child like you would for a child in the real world. Acknowledge their feelings and their fear and help them overcome it. Never invalidate anyone’s feelings.

This!. I feel like the quote falls short here. I wish they said something along these lines instead.

The quote in one of the recent top posts rang hollow to me, and while I understand that there are many people who would find that quote helpful, I could not accept it as it was written.

An important part of healing is acceptance and validation, and that includes acknowledging that the struggles we go through and the fears we feel are valid. The quote, ecouraging on the surface, boils down to "there is no reason to be afraid".

I think we can do better than that - and be kinder to our inner child.

>#Don't deny your inner child the emotional recognition it never got in your childhood, traumatic or otherwise.

This! The quote is invalidating and painful to many people who have gone through trauma. Here's what I would say:

It would have been more soothing if it didn't try to soothe with "no reason to be afraid" (what if there is?), and to further justify it with "we have strong hands and feet now" (what if we don't, figuratively speaking? And what if being strong doesn't help?)

I would have no issue if it said something along these lines:

>"Dear inner child. I understand that you are afraid. And you know what, the thing you are afraid of is scary - it really is! We are still dealing with it today, even as a big, strong adult. No wonder you struggled so much back then!

>But you know what, the fight is different now. We have learned. We have more tools now. And while we still get afraid every now and then - it's OK! - we do not let that fear consume us and define us.

>Not because we have grown stronger - trauma doesn't bring strength. But because we have grown. There's more to us than just the wounded part.

>We are a tree that grew from a stump - so intricate that nobody sees that we were broken once until they get real close. Where the branches were cut, the sap still drips. And yet, we stand tall, a tree of a million leaves.

Here, take this. And be kind to yourself, y'all.

> I don’t think Thich Nhat Hanh was trying to invalidate anything

He wasn't trying, but he did.