A few more thoughts, as I watch more people I know accept 2nd best.
- Bad therapy teaches us that it is ok to be where you are and to accept it, be ok with it, and is a nicer euphemism for suck it up. Drugs help people cope with their inability to move from a place they do not wish to be. This is the “Matrix” cliche.
- Good therapy helps hone your tools to change and grow and get what you want out of life. It shows you the mediocrity in the world.
- Surrounding yourself with anti-mediocrity forces you, by some kind of relational osmosis, to no longer be mediocre. People in this position seem to rise up with the tide.
- Boy-o-boy is the opposite true, when you spend time around slum dwellers - I mean this mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and beyond, there are many kinds of slums - you start to think and see the world as they do.
- The ability to lift a slum dweller out of the slum is reserved for a very few. Keep in mind literature and film are replete with examples of the do-gooder who falls. It is impossible to be unchanged by a journey into a slum. Just watch Star Wars already!
And do I find my self regurgitating Zen and The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance…
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wow that is harsh. i am going to get a feed of your blog bc it is more necessary for me to read it when I don’t hear it straight from the horse’s mouth.
I know, some of my thoughts are no always nice, but at the least I try to think….