Shadowlands

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“life is hard and there's malevolence in the world. You can tell a story where everyone's a victim. Because we all die, we all get sick and things happen to us that are bitter and terrible, betrayal, deceit, lies, people hurt us on purpose you know. So it's not just the tragedy of life it's malevolence as well. Everyone's a victim. You yourself can tell that story. The problem is if you tell that story and you start to act it out you make all of that worse. But there's an idea in Christianity that you should pick up your goddamn cross and walk up that hill. And that's dramatically, that's correct. It answers like you've got a heavy load of suffering to bear and a fair bit of it's going to be unjust. So what are you going to do about it? Accept it voluntarily and try to transform as a consequence! Pick up the cross of your tragedy and betrayal. Accept its terrible weight. Hoist it onto your shoulders and struggle impossibly upward toward the Kingdom of God on that hill. Because the alternative is Death and Hell.” Jordan Peterson