Originally Posted by
ArtFriend 
Yeah, but Tomsteve, you live in beautiful northern Michigan (Traverse City?) where I used to have a cabin to escape to (Higgins Lake). I am trapped in ultra-consumer oriented Dallas where there is a mall on every corner.
I've moved from northern Michigan september last year and live in meteo Detroit.
Guess what??? It STILL doesn't effect me because I don't allow it.
That simple!
I have no clue what that ultra consumer oriented stuff is. Might have it around here, but I don't care. I won't use it as an excuse to let it control how I feel.
Nonsensical hit something very important. Something that changed a LOT for me and my attitude-
Not plying the victim. When I stopped playing the victim in any circumstance I was playing the victim in, amazing things happened, like I stopped allowing people,places,and things control how I feel.