I am confused when people seperate out what they call challenges, trials, difficulties and road blocks from normal everyday life. How is it that you can differentiate between a "challenge" and life as it is meant to be? Dualism has never been a belief I've subscribed to, in fact it really chaps my backside...as my father used to say, "Dont piss down my back and tell me it's raining." What makes you, mister life is hard, think that your life is more or less important than everyone else? My brother was in the hospital this morning with kidney stones...it didnt ruin Christmas...he didn't put out the bat signal...when I asked how he was he simply shared that it hurt and then invited us over for a visit. I love that guy!
Life is and there is no arguing. To seperate, complain and call attention to aspects of your life that cause pain or suffering to try to avoid or lessen the affect, blocks paths leading to unknown places. Why do we do it then?
Fear. Fear of pain. Fear of loss. Fear of failure. Fear of embarssment. Fear of change. Fear of the unknown. That last one is the most interesting...how can one fear something UNKNOWN. You can't...what is really happening is fear of your imagination...silly.
Don't submit to the fear. Embrace life as it is. Explore, learn, feel, think, want, desire, need, communicate, experiment. But please whatever you do don't shy away from owning what is yours.
Don't be stupid either. A purpose of pain is to let us know that the thing causing the pain is undesirable...so learn from it. But don't undermine the lesson being taught either.
By the way, I do believe in empathy and love and one should be able to share their pains with friends and family, but only to the end of fulfilling the purpose of THAT life lesson.
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