One of my favorite short Pixar films is called Boundin, did you see that one? Please click the link and watch it if you’re interested, but I wanted to comment on the line, “You’ve got a pink kink in your think!” {One of the best lines of all time in my opinion!}
A “kink in your think” is a place in your thoughts or belief system that causes you to shoot yourself in the foot because your perspective and or focus is off!
One of the biggest kinks I think, is believing that somehow you are going to reach a place of ease and smooth sailing in your life. You’re going to work hard and be careful and check off all the right lists and that, somehow, will help you to rise above the human experience and stop needing or having soul-stretching experiences.
And if that weren’t skewed enough, you might then make it worse if you begin to believe that if {uh, just using if is indicative of lunacy} you do have a difficulty or a challenge that somehow you have failed!
Life is an exercise in contrasts. And accepting that is most liberating. “Sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down.”
Yes, we want to learn from our current challenges and we do all the time. But what happens, after we’ve learned from this one, is that the scenery changes and new challenges come and we continue to work through them so that we continue to grow in our abilities and our outlook.
Having mountains to climb doesn’t mean that you haven’t figured things out and somehow you’re behind or not in the know. Mountains simply mean that you are climbing to greater heights! You can handle more than you used to handle. You feel better about yourself now than you did last year. You have accomplished important tasks and milestones and you have made people and places better than you found them in the process.
“We just bound, bound, bound and rebound!”
You are where you are because of the things you have learned. And you have learned because there was something to be solved.
Which leads to the truth that no comparison between you and another person is ever clear or justifiable. No! No comparing!
I wish you a wonderful middle-of-the-week deep breath in, in, in, hold, hold, hold, hold and now softly blowing out and out and out and out. Shoulders down, eyes closed for a moment and allow your jaw relax.
You’re doing just fine. No, you’re doing better than fine. You are great!
Lot’s o’ love!
Jacque
P.S. Never stop asking for help. Cultivate the mindset of a student who is learning from everything and everyone, something that will benefit progress.
P.P.S. Heaven is always standing by to comfort and bless and strengthen you.
https://youtu.be/7WyR4AqRweY