{"id":1891,"date":"2009-06-23T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2009-06-23T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T03:09:00","slug":"1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my mother is going through her saturn return and her annual 12th house tour. it was hard being sucked up in it because it falls in cancer, thus simultaneously revealing a facet of myself as it reveals a hidden facet within her. but this is karmic duty.<\/p>\n<p>family is great overall though. lots of positive energy, they&#8217;re creating positivity on their own. was happy for that. andrew is a sweetheart. his innocence, like michael&#8217;s, makes me smile. i hope life never takes that away from him, or that he always fights for it.<\/p>\n<p>some idiots surfaced and just as quickly went away. some people have so little going on in their own lives that they try to project onto yours because they&#8217;re afraid to ask themselves their own questions. doesn&#8217;t matter. the only person you answer to is yourself. the only person you give to are those you want to. that&#8217;s basic. if you can live with yourself, if you accept yourself, it really doesn&#8217;t matter what other people think. your own self-containment will naturally draw people towards you who have also achieved a healthy sense of self-containment and awareness.<\/p>\n<p>i had this dream last night. ran into someone i once knew and because i&#8217;m who i am, i was nice even though he betrayed me, even though he probably won&#8217;t be able to fully understand it until he has the courage to face himself and his actions. truthfully, he will probably never understand it. it&#8217;s always been so easy for him to blame others for his actions, or project his lack of self-respect as others failing him. so i saw him and i was polite and nice, even though i was well aware this person is a snake&#8211;weak and selfish.  we were shooting baskets andhe was happy because i was being nice to him, and i realized he was actually relieved because he knew he&#8217;d talked a lot of shit about me behind my back that i&#8217;d never deserved, and sadly, i actually knew about it but chose to be a bigger person and see it as just the kind of person he is and had always ignored it. but suddenly, i realized, i was under no obligation to stay and give him my patience and kindness. the truth was, he didn&#8217;t deserve it. he was never my friend. his only interest was what i could give to him, how i could make him feel. as soon as it occurred to me, i just walked out of the gym and to my car. i wasn&#8217;t angry, i didn&#8217;t make a big show of it, it was as calm and disconnected as signing off of msn messenger. it was a good feeling, one of empowerment and freedom. in the parking garage, someone handed me some hand-painted fliers for an upcoming event. they 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