Ok, can everybody - like - stop normalizing badness?
I don't mean to go all valley girl on you, but life doesn't have to be so hard all the time.
I mean, like, it can be, but it doesn't have to be...
Let me point out some very unhelpful phrases in our ordinary vernacular:
Person A: "Hey, how's it goin'?"
Person B: "Better than I deserve."
What do you think you deserve, then?
Because you best believe that how you perceive what you deserve is exactly what you experience.
That sounded about like 432 hz better in my head.
And I know (and I know!!!) that this is like a Dave Ramsey thing and that it seems 100% awesome to say through the right lens, but for everyone on the radio show, it's just weird, man. Why you gotta bring your whole self worth into an answer to a throwaway question?
Ok anyway, next example:
Person C: " Hey, how are you?"
Person D: "I can't complain."
Do you expect to complain all the time?
In what reality is it normal to be complaining all the time?
Why would you answer a question in the negative?
What monster lives under your bed?
I don't have monsters under my bed.
But I do have monsters that destroy the toilet paper in the guest bathroom when I'm out of town.
They are my cats.
Ok anyway, next example:
Person E: "I'm experiencing _________."
Person F: "Well, that's what happens when you're over 40."
Person E: "Yeah, I've heard it's normal for people my age to have this problem."
Stop normalizing badness.
STAHPPPPPP
Like, it's not normal to have problems.
That is why they are problems. Because they are not normal.
Who told you that was normal?
Who?
WHO!?!?!?!??!
I know you guys believe that we live in a broken, sinful world, but what if the kingdom was at hand and we could just live in our inheritance but we keep waiting and waiting and waiting for something or someone to DIE when we could just BE and ENJOY?
The promised land was always there, but they just kept making up excuses not to go ahead and get into it. They kept limiting themselves because they thought they had to wait and earn it or weren't one with the father and didn't deserve it or whatever.
Person G(od): "Hey, I have this thing that outperforms your expectations."
Person H(uman): "If it's too good to be true, it probably is."
If things always have to be mediocre for you, well then, yeah.
Because you will only can ever believe in something marginally better.
And once that "better" accolades your new normal, anything above it still seems too far out of reach.
Just by the very wingspan of your own eyes.
So if you say no, then no it will be.
Person I: *suffers internally, externally*
Person I: "Well it just is what it is."
But what if by your own mere belief you gave yourself permission to deserve not to suffer?
I know that sounds complicated, but I'm kind of in the middle of overthrowing a big hairy arm of the military industrial complex here so hang with me.
What if we just stop accepting a new low as the new normal?
What if instead of fighting things, we just kind of, you know...left?
What if we stop latching on to diagnoses as destinies?
What if we put all of that attention to a new direction?
There are so many things that just don't deserve our energy and attention but they keep being important because we keep making them important.
A person who needs healing cannot go back to the life in which they begat illness for it would only resurface and breed more. They must move forward in a new direction.
If they truly want out, then they can no longer believe that their former life is for them.
That what was once normal is now not.
How very interesting.
It's almost like they didn't even know how powerful they were just by what they believed.
It's almost like they didn't even know how powerful they were just by what they believed.
Mike and I adopted a wise mantra recently.
I'll give it to you for a large sum of money.
Just kidding, nerd.
"Not in my reality."
Ps 16:6 Indeed a good inheritance is mine,
TWS
omg does Alli still believe in a book?
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