The Inevitable Pain

It is all fine until it isn’t.

Everything is fine, repeat to self X10, panic, repeat X10, more panic.

There is this odd thing we humans do to make ourselves "feel better.” Just tell ourselves the opposite, right? We will trick our own minds into undoing everything going wrong. Funny right? Not quite how that works.

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“Love the process.” No, not the quote that your local Instagram douche bag posts on his shirtless gym pic. I mean, do your thing Chad, but we are using it in different terms here. A process to always reevaluate our values, morals, thoughts and habits when something bad happens in our lives. This helps when things don’t “go as planned,” I mean why do we ever try to map out our whole life like we have all the control anyway? The hard parts of life are inevitable, there is absolutely no way we can get around them. Debbie downer, but true. Since we can’t control the bad things, we have to decide what we do have control over. Which is our emotions towards it and how we use the situation to our benefit. I know, “benefit from a crappy situation, okay what????”

Meaning benefit by letting it transform your way of thinking, let it challenge you, question if it is truly worth the negativity. After all, it IS part of the process. You can’t love certain parts of a process, you have to love it as whole. It blooms true appreciation for the hard work, the heartbreak, the disappointment, the struggle, and what you had to go through in order to come out of it! Make Pain Beautiful Again? Too soon? Thank U, Next? Really though, that song is a perfect example of loving the process of what got you where you are. It’s hard to apply this when things are going wrong but it gives you an overwhelming feeling of gratitude and appreciation to even be alive or able to go through that struggle. Some people don’t have that chance. Growth comes from challenge, so LOVE AND OWN YOUR STRUGGLE! Appreciate the challenge and use it to help better yourself!