Reached for: Daisies
“If I keep believing in the best of people, it'll come true. It has to.”
It runs as relentless hope pressed into service, a search for honor and grace and goodness in everyone and a drive to be the one who makes it all better, learned in a childhood spent trying to lift a family that kept sinking. The optimism is real and also a job; it never quite gets to rest. What it asks for is to let a situation be as bad as it is without having to redeem it.
Pollyanna, who met every hard thing with the glad game until the whole town caught it, and who broke, once, and had to be carried. The form implies a task: to let something be bad, and be carried through it.
- Essence
- Earned Keeping
- Rule
- If I stop believing the best, it all comes apart, and it's on me.
- Substance / Activity
- Idealism, the search for honor and grace, making it all better
- Archetype
- Pollyanna
- Emotional theme
- Hope carried as a duty
- Behavioural pattern
- Continuously seeking and manifesting goodness; the drive to repair
- Family dynamic
- A dysfunctional family the child kept trying to lift
- Core wound
- If I stop believing the best, it all comes apart, and it's on me.
- Exit
- Letting a thing be as bad as it is, without redeeming it.
What is the "Reached for: Daisies" pattern?
It runs as relentless hope pressed into service, a search for honor and grace and goodness in everyone and a drive to be the one who makes it all better, learned in a childhood spent trying to lift a family that kept sinking. The optimism is real and also a job; it never quite gets to rest. What it asks for is to let a situation be as bad as it is without having to redeem it.
What does "Reached for: Daisies" sound like when it shows up?
If I keep believing in the best of people, it'll come true. It has to.
What is the archetypal form of "Reached for: Daisies"?
Pollyanna, who met every hard thing with the glad game until the whole town caught it, and who broke, once, and had to be carried. The form implies a task: to let something be bad, and be carried through it.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.