Through Someone Else's Eyes

Last night I was feeling a little like curling up in a ball and crying uncle.  The job search is NOT going well and sometimes I wonder whether anyone even reads my applications.  I was a bumbling, puffy eyed mess, and in between my temper tantrum, my husband sat down with me and tried to calm me down.

Now I know I exaggerate, and when I say I know what I really mean is I have been told this before.  In the moment I don't actually believe I exaggerate at all.  So when I was having a bitch fit about the fact that I've "Been unemployed since last July" I honestly believed that to be the case.

Then Nick put my situation into more realistic terms....

-I was not actually allowed to work in England until September.
-I started doing temporary stuff for his work at the end of October.
-I went for a job interview at the beginning of November, and not only did I get the job I applied for, I got promoted on the spot.
-I worked for them until Christmas, when I decided to quit because they wanted me to work past the time I could get a train home.
-After Christmas Nick got a job in Sheffield, so I focused on getting prepared to move rather than continue the job hunt in London.
-Now I've been looking for a job for about two months, which is about the same amount of time I spent hunting before I got one in London.  Good things are coming my way soon.

Jeez, that doesn't sound SO bad does it?

Maybe we are all just too hard on ourselves.  Sometimes we just need someone to point this out, so we don't crawl into bed in the middle of the afternoon and say Fuck the World and give up and take naps to make the time go faster... um... I mean no of course I never do that!....  I think sometimes if I wasn't constantly nagging myself, and more accepting of the fact that I'm not perfect, I would be unstoppable.  

 What do you criticize yourself for?  And if you stopped what would you be capable of?