Most families in India, aren’t healthy families, but they project an image of what a family should be like.
Let’s take an example of Lance’s family.
Here, Lance is the first child, where he has a sibling Lucy, his mother is an enabling spouse and his father is a narcissistic control freak. Here we can see, that the father seems to take the central role in the entire situation. He, being a control freak, controls all decisions and events in the family. The enabling spouse or his mother is constantly trying to keep the family together, but is trying to fix the father’s attitude, and for that she gives all her emotional support to her spouse, leaving the children or mostly the scapegoat/rebel child emotionally neglected.
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In this situation, let’s say that Lucy is the golden child, the perfect child, the one who always listens to her parents or more so to her narcissistic father and helps with the family chores. Lucy, receives as much of emotion appreciation as her family can supply. Thus she is the exemplary child, the one that will always remain the personal favorite.
Now, moving over to Lance, he remains as the rebel/scapegoat of the family. The one who can never do anything right, the one who is filled with self hate, who is an underachiever and has grown up believing that he is always doing something wrong. In this case, Lance requires a larger amount of emotional attention than his sibling Lucy, which his parents can’t give him. This, in turn, leads to a whole lot of self hate and internal turmoil.
Now, are you wondering which of these two are you?
It’s simple,
- Do you have unexplainable anger in you?
- Are you in constant inner turmoil?
- Do you feel emotionally neglected at home?
- Does your relationship with your parents prevent you from sharing anything with them?
- Do you hate yourself for being just you?
- Are you constantly trying to please your parents for some sort of appreciation?
- Do you envy your sibling for their achievements?
- Over the years, have you started to doubt your own capabilities?
If most of these answers are Yes, you my friend are the scapegoat of the family. But fret not friend, this issue too has a cure. However it’s not going to change overnight and you won’t wake up tomorrow and your problems won’t runaway.
The key to this problem is YOU. Only you are the answer, solution, cure whatever you want to call it. You’re in a dysfunctional family, but unless you start loving yourself, learning to get in touch with yourself, and understand that pleasing others is not the goal but keeping yourself happy is one, you will not be able to overcome this problem. If you’ve satisfied yourself, then you’ve done a perfect job! If not, work on it! You need to know your worth, before someone else comes to know, and sabotages what’s there in you.
Waged a war with my soul,
Sold it to the devil.
Stabbed it with a knife.
Bled black blood.
All that remained was a flaw.
A flaw I hated,
My soul was now a flaw.
But then he came, and made me realize,
Imperfection is the true perfection.
We search too much for perfection,
Even though it’s right in front of our eyes,
Within our grasps.
We are what I should call, Imperfectly Perfect.
We are what we make ourselves.
There is no good, there is no bad.
But there’s just you.
And you are perfect, trust me.
You don’t need another person to show you how to love yourself.
The emotional Turmoil in your heart is ’cause of these complications we’ve created.
Promise me, you’ll never sell yourself short,
’Cause someone doesn’t believe in you.
Promise me, you’ll never look into the mirror hating your Flaws.
’Cause these Flaws make you, YOU.
Promise me, when you wake up tomorrow you’ll always see the brighter side.
Cause even during the darkest night, either the moon or the stars come out to shine.
Free yourself from the shackles of yesterday,
Breathe in the freedom of today,
And believe that tomorrow is a gift.
