Some Tough Love
What has helped me on my journey so far, is coming to accept, we are here to learn & grow, endlessly. I can only talk about my own personal experience and my own spiritually myopic current viewpoints. Hey, we're here to be human, right? We're continuously encountering challenges. Going thru cycles of growth, seasons of change. Life Long Learning. Which for a long time, for me, felt annoying and frustrating. So there's no end? There's no pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow? There's no goal that has been reached and then I'm done and can rest? Well, I have found that there is some sort of yaay-points, transition points, we peel back one layer at a time, sometimes painful, sometimes joyful. I do enjoy giving myself a check mark or an internal big hug at the "end" of all that work, effort, care and time I put in. I no longer expect that positive reinforcement to come from the outside. When I do get it, it is nice and sometimes a sweet confir...