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You Might Get Broken, But You Won’t be Beaten
Not unless you give up or choose to give in to suffering.
Life is unpredictable in so many ways. One moment, everything can be dark, distressing, and deeply unpleasant. Then, the next moment, it can be brilliant, exciting, and deeply joyful. Most of the time life falls somewhere between these extremes.
The modern world is obsessed with extremes. So many things are viewed as either/or, rather than the far vaster middle between them. It’s all black or white, never mind the shades of grey and myriad of colors between the opposite poles. Most people live somewhere between the poles, no matter what opposites you’re looking at.
One Size Fits All never fits all. Yet you’re constantly bombarded by messages to conform, to find your accepted place in society, and to be a cog in the machine.
When I began to develop my Pathwalking philosophy, it was because I have never been a good cog in the machine. Corporate America and I rarely have seen eye to eye. Once, when I was told that management wanted the input of us common workers, I gave it. That did not go well, and it made me suspect and a nonconformist in the eyes of management. It was no surprise to me when I was increasingly scrutinized, written up for ridiculous infractions, and summarily fired.
