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Looking back on my life, I occasionally felt tempted to let go of who I was and to give myself a break. In most cases, this feeling occurred when I was depressed for a number of reasons, such as failing to achieve my goal or receiving harsh criticism. In the worst case, I found myself wanting to end my life.
To be honest, I have had these feelings since I was a child, and my darkest days came when I began to engage in overseas business. At the time, I was overwhelmed because I had never experienced the kind of work I was assigned. I was sometimes bitterly criticised or teased by my superiors. Therefore, I hit rock bottom.
Aside from this event, I had two similar experiences in my forties. Both of these disasters were due to personality incompatibility with my reporting manager. In the first case, the manager was too pedantic for me to keep up with his way of thinking. When I did not follow his logic, he used to humiliate and berate me. As a result, I was often depressed and came to convince myself that it was my fault. The second disaster resulted from our different backgrounds .Although I had built my career as a salesman in overseas markets, he had developed his career in corporate planning. Therefore, we were fundamentally incompatible, and he had no willingness to listen to my ideas. Frustrated by his inability to understand me, he did similar things to the aforementioned manager.
While I was being consumed by these occurrences, one day, I suddenly asked myself whether it was entirely my fault. This enabled me to calmly reflect on what had happened â for the first time in my forties. As a result, I realised that I had blamed myself too much. In other words, when I was being condemned or dwelling on it, I had internally accepted full responsibility. This objective reflection helped me emerge from that depth of agony.
Since then, I have become more considerate of my own feelings and come to respect myself more, because I am the only one who is able to support and encourage myself. Furthermore, I am my own best supporter, because I know myself far better than anyone else.
This change in mindset has enabled me to accept and deal with failures more effectively. Consequently, I embrace life fully. Even if I were to go through the same experiences in the near future as I did in my forties, I would never suffer in the same way.
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