Wanting a positive experience can be a negative experience.
There’s a sense of lack.
Accepting a negative experience can be a positive experience.
There’s a sense of peace.
So, does that mean the experience is less relevant than our response to it?
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One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.