Category: body+mind+soul
watch: future shock
and then…
There was a story behind this story, that became a story everyone would be living in.
Now – more than ever – personal expectations are going to make the difference between survive vs thrive, comfort vs discomfort, poverty vs prosperity…
An upside of being old is:
“avoiding disappointment better, by knowing better what to expect”
watch: toxic positivity
watch: happy?
read: required life experiences
from intellectual takeout
- Not being invited to a birthday party
- Experiencing the death of a pet
- Breaking a valuable vase
- Working hard on a paper and still getting a poor grade
- Having a car break down away from home
- Seeing the tree he planted die
- Being told that a class or camp is full
- Getting detention
- Missing a show because she was helping Grandma
- Having a fender bender
- Being blamed for something he didn’t do
- Having an event canceled because someone else misbehaved
- Being fired from a job
- Not making the varsity team
- Coming in last at something
- Being hit by another kid
- Rejecting something he had been taught
- Deeply regretting saying something she can’t take back
- Not being invited when friends are going out
- Being picked last for neighborhood kickball