if you're not owning your life, someone else is
We're more inclined to recognise the needs of the weak, than we are of the strong.Without meaning to, we diminish the humanness of those who persevere without complaint, because they often make it look so easy.When we're the strong ones persevering without complaint, we risk diminishing our own humanness as well, because we become defined [...]
Rage is a destructive demand for significance when we believe that who we are is not enough to be important to those we love.The anger that spurs on the rage is a defence mechanism to protect ourselves from becoming invisible.We try, in our own little futile ways, to be enough without being able to express [...]
To be of consequence, or to feel significant, lies at the heart of our inspiration to accomplish anything.When we connect with conviction to the significance of who we are, and what value we add to the lives of others, we achieve a sense of peace and contentment.But, when we doubt this, we set out in [...]