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Can We Just Let Things Be?
We’ve become so busy finding lessons in everything that we’ve forgotten how to simply experience life
Hey Soulfuls!
I wonder when we started treating every experience like an assignment.
A friendship ends, and we must learn something from it. A relationship fails, and we’re supposed to discover our worth.
A difficult year teaches us resilience.
A missed opportunity teaches us patience.
A disappointment teaches us acceptance.
And if we cannot find a lesson in something, we almost feel as though we’ve wasted the experience.
We sit with our feelings, analyse our reactions, revisit conversations, search for explanations, and try to extract some meaningful conclusion from everything that happens to us.
What was this supposed to teach me?
Why did this happen?
What am I meant to understand from this?
And perhaps the strangest part is that we rarely allow ourselves to leave these questions unanswered.
We’ve become so accustomed to turning our lives into stories of growth that we’ve forgotten something rather…
