What is wrong with being uncomfortable?
Maybe it’s because The Good is often depicted as a life of ease and comfort. We tend to conflate difficult or uncomfortable things as negative, and therefore something to avoid. But difficult things aren’t good or bad, they just are. How we feel about difficulty gives it the quality of “good” or “bad.” If I enjoy the work, the challenge can be gratifying, enjoyable. If I don’t, then it won’t.
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This pic popped up on my “memories” and after, going 🥹 I remembered how at that moment I felt very synced up, very connected to this little person.
Years later, when Jack and I were having another high vibes moment I asked him, “What do you think buddy, do you think we’ll always be friends?” He said, “I don’t know mom. I mean, years from now I will have a totally different brain. I don’t know if my brain will want to be friends with your brain.”
The quest for self-discovery still feels endless. My navel-gazing is neck-breaking. My internal interrogations make it impossible to relax. I am working on letting go of my resentments, my impatience, my perfectionism. I am learning to be gentler with myself instead of spiraling into negative self-talk and silent lectures about never doing enough, never being enough.
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