Climb the Ladder. Choose your Pain
Choose Your Pain. Climb the Ladder. I am inspired to write this based in part on my current favorite book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. A Spiritual Journey is usually framed as a kind of grandiose romantic “calling” that requires little effort other than “listening” to your “guides” and preaching to an audience that usually turns out to be people who already agree with you or want to agree with you. People don’t like to disagree, or experience what they call “negativity”. This is the era of toxic positivity, part of the new age industry. In reality, nothing is all good, or all bad. And everything has pain. If you rise to success, you suffer the loss of friends and a simpler life as responsibilities and pressures increase. If you choose to leave a relationship that is no longer good for you, you will face the pain of loss and some loneliness even though you have left behind the disrespect of not being valued, or even the pain of abuse. This irreverent and timely ...