One form of hiding is tucking yourself away from the hard work of emotional labor. We hide ourselves from risk and run away from things that spark fear in us as we try to make progress.
Another form of hiding, and an equally scary one, is the hiding we do of our struggles.
The path to our own desired goals and achievements is riddled with struggle and hardship and disappointment of the worst kind – disappointment in ourselves.
And we hide it. We keep the struggles secret. We let on to others that we’re fine, not drowning.
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I was once told that if I and everyone around me threw our work in a pile, we would go back in and take our own out.
Imagine what we would do if we threw our struggles into a pile.
Take others for them? Take our own and give others the benefit of the doubt? Take any because we’re all struggling with the same problems?
Who knows, but it’s comforting to think about.
Stay Positive & Chances Are You’re Not The Only One
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