Thanks Cheryl and Mike for your warm engagement =)! Cheryl, yes it can be so challenging and yet living life floating along unaware yet feeling that nagging sensation of wtf is the point of this existence is sooo painful! And so we keep going... Digging in and freeing up!

Mike...thanks for your input...yes a question that keeps coming is what if it didn't matter what anyone thought about you? And does it?! How freeing to live in a way that is not obscured by the need to be liked or well received... Not there yet but recognize that every moment is inviting this and I am beginning to stumble and not be so prepared and not always say the "appropriate" thing and this crack in the protective shell is oddly exhilerating!
=) love, Jenny

Came back to add that surely this is a feeling out process of authentic expression balanced with interacting in a way that can most readily be received.... Not just a disregard for how things are received but more non-attachment to the outcome.