I'm going to see my brother today, in jail.
An activity that I've had to do at various points over the years.
He's been there since early June from nearly a lifetime of misplaced and misguided energy.
I tell you this so you know that I'm not someone who sits in a tower and passes easy judgment down for the townspeople to attend to.
I'm out here fighting the battles daily in an attempt to make peace and enjoy life regardless of what fun and exciting new dramedies come into view.
Through years of challenge exposure therapy 😅🤣(a nice way to frame it), I've come out with a grit that damn near qualifies me as sandpaper.
Everyday I am smoothing the challenges, grinding down the hard edges so as to not get a splinter, to not get caught up.
And to remember that:
everything is temporary, even me.
Challenges are impersonal and unending, they are simply the nature of life. Everyday we have the opportunity to decide how we let them affect us or transform us.
I'm not going to lay down and let the challenge steam roll over me, the only real option is to overcome and create new. Letting life move freely through me vs fighting the very nature of everything that exists.
Life bears no interest in your plans. Please understand that.
It is through our mindset that we are able to transform energy, transforming life in the process.
We will all have challenges, day cannot exist without the night. Everything is in a constant cycle of death and rebirth, what waxes also wanes.
Through training our mind to understand the cyclical nature of life we can find peace on any point on the wave.
I don't let my outside circumstances tell me how to feel, I nurture my inner world enough to be at peace regardless of what's on the news.
I have put my theories to use and know that they have worked for me.
In 2022 I was laid off from my first tech job. When I was employed I had booked a month long solo trip to Turkey, which I now had to take unemployed. The week before I left for Turkey, my car “blew up”. No job, no car, and struggling to pay off debt from a previous life.
Did I mention that my identity had also been stolen for Unemployment Insurance(this had delayed benefits by 3+ months)? I was truly a doozy-soup.
Something was different this time though - I didn't freak out. I simply just knew that it would all work out somehow.
Life would go on and I would just get through this like every other thing that I've had to get through. Tbh this challenge was a cakewalk compared to some earlier years.
And get through it I did. This time there was a noticeable difference, minimal stress. No stress because rather than fight the circumstances, I just accepted that this is a new challenge and something I have to learn from.
Stress has a very minor role in this play, and frankly doesn't add much except inflammation.
Life is moving with or without you, learn to roll with it and accept its nature and you set yourself free from the dramas that prevent people from enjoying the life they have.
We only have one life, learn to enjoy it before it's too late. This is the core tenant of the message I hope to hypnotize you with.
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