Hello! Welcome back to another day of SB Chime. The news today is my hometown is on fire. Really trippy experience to have your Mom call you in the middle of the day and ask if there's anything important enough to rescue.
I am traveling next week to Monterey and plan to stay in an "recommended" evacuation area. I will probably be releasing this blog publicly then as well. I texted my friends about potentially moving our trip South, but it seems like Cal Fire's gift to me is to suggest that containment will be by the very day I was born! What a pleasure.
Right now, I am focused on this. I wasn't sure where it was all going when I started. I guess that is what they call passion. As I continue on the road, more doors open and things I initially thought would be possible for my character become easier and easier to achieve. All I do is put work in, make myself slightly more uncomfortable when I am comfortable and the growth reveals itself. It gets noticed by some trip of my fate. Where I put effort is what seems to develop. There is a balance. Overexertion tends to lead to burnout in any relationship, physical or emotional and spiritual as well.
Balance in all things. Where my mother has hurt me, she has also given me opportunity not only for growth, but also as a prize because revitalizing from slight discomfort gives a deeper sense of meaning and greater understanding of the human experience.
In this way, it is almost like your pains are actually gifts: they reveal more about you. A human's tolerance for pain, then, is likely to be an indication of success in life.
Now understand, it is so important to moderate this discomfort or pain because experiencing it all at once can be debilitating where experiencing it in pieces can encourage the development of strength. A man who can walk through ice is a greater man than his fellow who might quiver and run from the entrance.
Grow steadily and work hard, but take care of yourself at your pace, and your life will change.