Comments on: Poor Me and Amazing Me: Which Narrative is Yours?

By: Who Can Stand Before Jealousy? - Kris Camealy | Kris Camealy

Who Can Stand Before Jealousy? - Kris Camealy | Kris Camealy — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:29:53 +0000

[…] As Estelle in Great Expectations was raised to break men’s hearts, I was raised to achieve, to be Amazing Me. […]

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 19:29:18 +0000

In reply to anon.

“Why is the source of your confidence through God? Why can’t it be on your own?”
Because God is more gifted than I am 🙂

By: anon

anon — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 18:13:25 +0000

This was an amazing piece of writing until the very end. I thought you had a point and was excited to read it until you started praising the Lord, I feel like the two halves of your article are irrelevant to each other. Really? The solution to your overachieving complex is the fact that you are a child of God, and boom, all your problems and insecurities are solved?
It seems very weak to me to rely on just that and think that because you are reminding yourself that you’re a child of God, like everyone else, all of a sudden you are relieved of that mindset. You’ve inflated yourself with pride through your relationship with God, which is something everyone and thing has. I just don’t understand how repeating this to yourself strengthens you as you have said. Why is the source of your confidence through God? Why can’t it be on your own?

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:22:46 +0000

In reply to Vera Petkovsky.

Welcome to my blog, Vera. I tend to verbalise “Amazing Me” more than Poor Me, but I wonder if doing a bit of Poor Me might also be good for my psychological health!
Ideally, I think, as a Christian writer, I would love to grow beyond these roles and just write what might be a blessing to people, putting “Me” in the background! 🙂

By: Vera Petkovsky

Vera Petkovsky — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:41:15 +0000

What a timely moment, meeting with you, Anita, on Twitter. I was raised as a Poor Me in a family full of them. Gradually, over years and decades of life, I have built up an Amazing Me. They frequently battle one another so that I feel stuck in the middle ground or, worse yet, fluctuate between the two in unhealthy ways. The sentiments of the Apostle Paul, who did not do what he wanted to do but did what he did not want to do could well have been spoken by me. I am going to read and follow you for inspiration, Anita. Many blessings in Christ, Vera