Wake up at 2 AM in crazy pain: ✅
Writhe for four hours before asking wife for a ride to the ER: ✅
Have doctors try to find a pain medicine that will actually work on Wombat: ✅
Get queued up for emergency surgery: ✅
Request prayers from friends on X: ✅
"The forest does not ask the fox to become a bear. Every creature has a path, and every path has a purpose.
But remember this: you cannot spend your entire life looking after the forest and forget to enjoy the flowers growing beneath your own feet."
Your animal totem: The Chimpanzee 🐒
Your spirit animal isn't the quiet observer sitting in the back of the room. It's the intelligent, expressive, communicative, curious creature who notices everything, and forms strong bonds.
You know how to make conviction contagious.
You have an interesting combination of qualities: strong beliefs, a playful personality, creative ambition, and a willingness to be visible.
Your FaithLikeAbish identity illustrates this beautifully. You have taken a Book of Mormon character associated with faith and courage and made that identity part of your public voice.
You don't just want to consume things you love. You want to contribute to them.
Your ability to combine enthusiasm, humor, creativity, and conviction can make people feel more connected to something bigger than themselves.
That's a meaningful strength.
Chimpanzees are highly social, emotionally expressive, and intensely responsive to their surroundings. Those qualities can be strengths, but they can also become exhausting.
You don't have to respond to every provocation. You don't have to prove every point. And you don't have to turn every good idea into an immediate project.
Your worth is not measured by how many people agree with you. And your creativity is not measured by how many things you start.
There will always be someone who misunderstands your convictions. There will always be another argument, another challenge, another mountain to climb.
Your next level of growth isn't becoming less passionate.
It's becoming more intentional about where you put that passion.