SELF PITY

SHORT STORY

Emotions: SELF PITY/PARANOIA

Lenny is a lime in a bundle of lemons at a grocery store. He feels as though the world is against him. He always is picked on by the lemons for not being yellow enough and being strange.
Lenny believes them, he feels sorry for himself and think he isn’t even good enough to be picked by a human. Days pass and only lemons are picked further verifying the lemons practices. One day a gorgeous beautiful human stops by the lemon
bundle. Lenny, as usual, feels sorry for himself and start to burrow fearfully within the group of fruits. The gorgeous one puts her hand in, all the finest lemons roll to her, but she grabs deeper. She closes her hand around Lenny and pulls up. Lenny is
terrified of what humans think of them, especially her.

“What a beautiful sweet line, I hate sour lemons so much,” she says.

Lenny is delighted, his destiny is fulfilled. He now realizes all his self pity, fear and doubt in himself was unfounded.

SELF PITY “Feeling sorry for yourself”
Self-pity is the emotion of denying oneself of confidence. Often in this state of mind a person cannot take the current situation as is. A small amount of self-pity is natural as it will
lead to a revelation, growth, acceptance. In severe cases, selfpity
will lead to depression. You can instantly know you are in self pity when you begin to whine and complain about something. Repeating the same horror stories of the past over and over. Self-pity can also be called the negative affirmations of the things which you cannot do or have. (I have no friends, I can’t
dance, no one likes me) So know that you are beating yourself up internally every time you engage in self-pity.

SELF-PITY (Quotes)

“Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.” – John W. Roper

“Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.” – Baruch Spinoza

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.” – D.H. Lawrence

“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.” – Andre Gide

“It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.” – Manly Hall

“Everyone thinks his own burden is heavy.” – French Proverb

“What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.” – Oliver C. Wilson

“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is.

How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.” – Millicent Fenwick

“Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.” – Michel de Montaigne

“There are few human emotions as warm, comforting and enveloping as self-pity. And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. There is only one answer; turn away from it and move on.” – Dr. Megan Reik