You’re bigger than how others treat you.

[Real talk: people can be really stupid and treat you poorly.] 

Pretend you have a machete in your hand. 

If you don’t know what that is, google it. 

And imagine you hacking away and cutting away all the bullshit in your life.

People, included.

And when you get down to cutting away the last little bits, you realize there’s this huge, pulsating vein (gross, I know, and I need to be extra here for dramatization) connecting you and all the people you’re trying to hack away.

On the vein is written “I can’t live without you.”

You pause. 

This is a lie.

It’s always a lie. This is when you first realize you must cut it away because something truer is calling. 

Any belief that you require a specific person to be happy and are willing to temporarily harm yourself to keep this person around is violent.

Lots of people use spiritually and intelligence as a way to talk themselves around and back into shitty, unhelpful and toxic situations.

When you turn around, machete in hand, you’ll also notice that you have wings. And that there are all your other mates flying around you saying, “C’mon, let’s go! Let’s fly higher!”

You’ll be tempted to think the pulsating vein is reality. 

It is only if you allow it to be.

What does this have to do with your purpose, your life and your joy?

Who wants to be tethered to another person by a big gross vein and neediness?

And how can you be joyful when you’re embarking on a road to resentment and self-denial?

…I’ll wait…:)