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Because your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.
no other response to the ups and downs of life makes sense besides gratitude. You are already in your experience. So you can either resent and resist it, and make it that much less enjoyable, or you can accept it and find something positive in it.
shoulder-shrugging is different than not caring: It’s having perspective. It’s looking at a bigger picture instead of being reactive. By having that outlook, I was eventually able to understand that if someone was making fun of my height or clothing, they weren’t making fun of who I was.
accept-me-for-who-I-am-or-don’t-accept-me-at-all
embrace it without tiptoeing around it—I love it.
Don’t invite them into the conversation. You already know what you want to dedicate yourself to, so you don’t need to ask for their approval. There’s no need to seek external approval when you already have internal approval.
Though people say to live in the moment, each moment leads to other moments. So treat each moment like a seed, and care for it so that something beautiful can grow from it.
