i think one of the biggest blessings of my life is that i don’t struggle with life. i don’t “over think / feel”. i don’t struggle to be happy or calm. i don’t get anxiety unless the police behind me. i don’t live in dark pockets. I really don’t stress over anything in my life

i attribute this to a few things:

1. real faith in God. worrying is an insult to praying.

2. i never was a drug user. including weed. getting high means you fall lower every time. that doesn’t change.

3. i never have been more than a social drinker.

4. i can do anything. I’ve always believed that so my approach to life has never been a discouraged or insecure one.

5. being costly honest. i don’t like “brutally honest” as a phrase. it implies attacking. im costly honest meaning, ill stick to the truth no matter what it

costs me. and if i can do it with everyone around me then i certainly can do it with myself. i think a lot of unhappiness comes from lying to others & lying to self. you can’t do one without the other. and living a lie is a prison like no other with no bars but no pardons either.

this keeps me from almost ever feeling regretful. a costly mistake can set you back, but you’ll grow from it when you’re honest with yourself. if you knowingly lied to yourself and that was the reason for the costly mistake, that’s a heavy burden. now you second guess everything.