The Frying Pan Of Life

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By Evan Sanders


Sizzle.

Somethings cooking on that pan.

If you took the time to ask 100 different people what their main goal in life was, you would probably get a mass majority giving you an answer relating to happiness.

Of course happiness is a fantastic thing, but really how do you manage to get it? How do you go about living your life in a way that guarantees your happiness?

When we are truly happy, we are just happy.

When we are happy we are just happy. But when we are suffering in any way, we try to fix it, change it, manipulate it and get it as far away as possible. We try to rid ourselves from these bad feelings quickly in order to hopefully get back to happiness, but that never really works.

Ignoring what's really going on in your life is a very dangerous and destructive way of living. When you ignore what's actually going on you create a ladder that is missing rungs. When life gets really difficult and starts kicking your butt, the rungs you hoped you could step down on are not there and you end up falling hard.

Down. Down. Down to the bottom of the ladder.

Bang. Knocked out. In pain. Life is miserable.

We've all been there. So here's the part about how you can change all of this.

Court a little bit of chaos and some madness in your life. Start diving into the parts of your soul that might not be the easiest places to go. You know, that place called the past, especially the times that hold negative memories. The trick is to get your hand close enough to the frying pan to feel the heat and not burn yourself. You should also keep yourself from staying so far away that you cannot feel the heat at all. If you can find this middle ground in the darkness, staying near to the negative feelings without being consumed by them, you will find out some pretty interesting things about yourself.

Going through this process will really allow you to heal.

If you know how to deal with some chaos and madness it can bring great things out in you.

It's not only the light that can create amazing things. You can create incredible art through the darkness as well. But you have to be willing to go there first. You have to be willing to enter into the places of your heart that scare you and challenge you in the toughest of ways. There are brilliant things that can be created from that place.

Be brave enough to do this.

Maybe happiness shouldn't be the goal. Maybe growth should be the goal. If we focused on growing every single day, we could see ourselves moving in all sorts of directions. We would expand and shrink in places and be almost like an amoeba. If we lived that way, there would be no shortage of direction in our life.

So try it on for size. It could change your life.




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