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Your Neighborhood Therapist
Dear Neighborhood Therapist,
I am in my 30s and would like to buy a
home, but with my salary I can only save a
little bit, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able
to afford to buy. I also don’t make enough
to take someone on dates or vacations, and
while I know that’s not everything, it just
makes it that much harder to find a partner. I
was working for a promotion, or a new job,
but things just look bleaker than ever now. I
feel stuck and cannot shake this feeling that
I am a total failure and that nothing will ever
change that.
– Failing at Life, I Think
Dear Failing at Life,
I’m a music lover. And a father. And a son.
And a voter. A husband. Brother. Grandson.
Uncle. Cousin. Person. Citizen. Friend. Acquaintance.
Reader. Hiker. Camper. Tennis
player. Baseball player. Employee. Boss.
Writer. Sports fan. Student. Teacher. Coach.
Producer. Consumer. Therapist. Angeleno.
New Orleanian. Dreamer.
These are just some of my identities - some
of the many hats I wear and have worn. I will
certainly wear more in the future. No doubt you
wear just as many hats as I do. If you can, please
take a moment and write all of yours down.
I suspect you will notice that not all hats
are treated equally. Think of meeting someone
new. In the first minute you inevitably hear,
“So, what do you do?”
“What do you do?” is a question often
asked as small talk - but it is insidious. Specifically,
it is an invitation for us to identify
with how we make our living, and thus
offer ourselves up for evaluation based on
one aspect of a person’s life. Try answering
“What do you do?” with something like, “I
bleed Dodger blue” or “I take good care of
my friends” or “I am a wonderful uncle to
my nieces” and enjoy the look of confusion
on the questioner’s face.
Our culture equates “success” with “worthiness,”
and too often defines success in terms of
profession and wealth. Is the acquisition of material
things a greater achievement than lovingly
caring for a child every day? I don’t think it
is, and I don’t think I’m alone in this position.
Why did I mention all the hats I wear, and
ask you to note down all the hats you wear?
Because all of us - including you - are so much
more than traditional “success.” We are all
Walt Whitman: We are large. We contain
multitudes.
Look at your list. These are your multitudes.
Which of your multitudes are most
important to you, and why? This is what
matters. I humbly request that we all stop
asking “What do you do?” It’s the wrong
question. Instead let’s ask, “What’s important
to you?” I suspect, Failing at Life, that
if you had the chance to speak more about
what is important to you, you’d find you
measure up just fine.
Please write to tom@tomandrecounseling.
com or text to 310.776.5299 with questions about
handling what is affecting your life, your family,
the community or the world. Tom
Andre is a Licensed Marriage & Family
Therapist (LMFT119254). The
information in this column is for educational
purposes only and nothing herein
should be construed as professional advice or
the formation of a therapeutic relationship. •
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