The pain is not your failing,
The squeeze is not your failing.
The thoughts are not your failing.
The restlessness is not your failing.
The deep exhaustion is not your failing.
The fear is not your failing.
The conditioning is not your failing.
What speaks to you and what doesn’t is not your failing.
The hate is not your failing.
The loneliness is not your failing.
The dreams are not your failing.
The circumstances are not your failing.
The reaction of others is not your failing.
The feeling of failure is not your failing.
The meaninglessness is not your failing.
The feeling of heaviness is not your failing.
The grief is not your failing.
The mindset of doing is not your failing.
Being in the middle of nowhere is not your success.
It’s just the way things are.
If you haven’t failed, you can’t succeed.
You can’t succeed and you can’t fail – even though everything will tell you otherwise.
No one can.
Realize this.
There’s freedom here. Freedom from comparison. Freedom from success. Freedom from failure.
Freedom from I’ve made it or I haven’t.
The most successful and the miserable failures are one in the same.