Rites of passage...What are rites of passage? Birth, Marriage, Death? Sweet 16? Adulthood of 18? Drinking age of 21? Fraternities humiliating new members? The list goes on...
A friend had told me recently that I am experiencing a "rite of passage" in my second career. So what is this rite of passage? Bullying, oppression just to name a few. So why is this meant as a "rite of passage"?
The individuals that I have had the most unpleasant experiences of these "rites of passage" makes me question - no - helps me to understand why people don't trust therapists. These women that I have had to endure countless times of being bullied, picked on, screamed at; these women who sorely lack the qualities of a good therapist: Compassion, Empathy, Understanding.
This leads me to wonder why they are in the field that they are in. If you can not have or find in your heart to have these abilities with those that you are mentoring, training, or working with - why are you there? Why do you feel you have the ability to show these very simple human qualities to those you call clients - yet not to those that work tirelessly, for free?
Is this truly a "rite of passage"? Or simply unhappy people that feel they have the right to pick on those who have yet to have achieved what they have (sic) licensing? Or is it really a matter of their own insecurities and lack of ability to own it?
Quite frankly, these "rites of passage" have only shown me one thing: that I would never want to be like this individuals that feel that they have the power to belittle others for the sake of their own inadequacies. That I know in my heart that I could never be like this because I have never been like this. Nor would I put someone through these horrendous situations.
"Rites of Passages"...
