Two people stand in the same rain.
☔The first personBlames the sky for ruining the plans.
🌾The second personSmiles because the fields have just been watered.
The rain does not change.
What differs is how each person sees it.
Life is the same. An event happens only once, but the mind can retell it in a hundred ways.
What actually happened
- A message not yet answered
- A plan postponed
- A frank piece of feedback
The story the mind adds
- “They must not value me”
- “I am always unlucky”
- “They are trying to put me down”
Sometimes we suffer not because life is too heavy, but because of the way we are understanding life.
Try now: when something upsets you, write two lines – what actually happened, and what you are telling yourself on top of it. The gap between those two lines is often where the pain lives.
What stays
Clear discernment is not only about questioning the world, but also about daring to question the way we ourselves are thinking.
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