The measure of a life well-lived is not how often you have avoided discomfort, pressure, or change, but the grace with which you navigated it. To say that you faced not even a fraction of resistance within your life proves nothing more than that you were defined by nothing: tried for nothing, stood for nothing, did nothing with the gifts that were given to you. I know it seems like the absolute worst thing in the world is to be disapproved of, but the actual worst thing is to paralyze yourself under the guise that you might be able to avoid any friction. The merit is not in whether or not you
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