One thing I've noticed since COVID is that something changed in people. Patience seems thinner. Empathy feels harder to find. It often seems like we're quicker to judge and slower to understand.But there's another change I've noticed.
The people who spent years giving endless grace, overlooking bad behavior, and believing the best in everyone eventually reach a point where they stop making excuses. They don't become bitter. They become clear. They stop arguing. They stop chasing. They stop trying to convince people who have already shown them who they are.
What some mistake for being "cold" is often just the absence of the warmth they took for granted.
Yesterday's MK Oversight Committe regurgitated decades old information. In light of that, on July 10th, Shelly will be doing what should have been done by Rep. Luna.
Yesterday's MK Oversight Committe regurgitated decades old information. In light of that, on July 10th, Shelly will be doing what should have been done by Rep. Luna.
@drASTpitt@WallStreetApes It was all designed to make you easy to manipulate and control. Sucks to be a slave, doesn’t it? At least you are a well paid one, right? Let someone else do the right thing and get slaughtered for it. This is how the rotten to the core system survives. We all play a role in it.
@drASTpitt@WallStreetApes So what you are admitting is that doctors have become slaves to a for profit business model that includes insurance companies, hospitals and Big P(harm)a, and they are no longer compassionate healers. Why aren’t all of you taking your power back? Sellouts!!
@WallStreetApes Or, you can figure out how your body is misaligned and correct it with diet and exercise. I healed both knees at 60 without doctors, injections or surgeries.
“WHY DOES LIFE HURT SO MUCH?”
A man asked the Buddha with eyes heavy with life.
The Buddha looked at him quietly—not to answer immediately, but to understand.
Then he said,
“You are holding on to things that are meant to pass.”
The man frowned. “Holding on to what?”
The Buddha gently pointed to a nearby river.
“Look at that water,” he said.
“Yesterday’s river is gone.
This moment’s river is already moving.
If you try to hold it in your hands… it slips away.
And yet, you suffer—not because the river flows,
but because you wish it would stay.”
The man was silent.
The Buddha continued—
“You cling to people…
expecting them to remain the same.
But people change, just like seasons.”
“You cling to moments…
wanting joy to last forever.
But even the most beautiful sunset fades into night.”
“You cling to expectations…
how life should be,
instead of seeing how it is.”
The man lowered his head.
“But why does it hurt so deeply?” he asked again.
The Buddha picked up a small pebble and held it tightly.
“If I hold this lightly,” he said,
“there is no pain.”
Then he clenched his fist hard.
“But if I grip it tightly… it begins to hurt.”
He looked at the man and said,
“The pain is not from the stone.
It is from the tightness of your grip.”
The man’s eyes softened.
“So what should I do?” he whispered.
The Buddha smiled.
“Learn to hold everything with an open hand.”
“Love people… but don’t try to own them.
Enjoy moments… but don’t demand they stay.
Have hopes… but don’t let them become chains.”
“Let things come.
Let things go.
And remain present with what is.”
The man sat there for a long time,
watching the river flow.
For the first time,
he didn’t try to stop it.
And in that moment—
a small, quiet peace found him.
Because peace begins
the moment you stop gripping
what is already gone.
✨🙌🏾💫