Sometimes inspiration can come from the strangest places…..
Over the last seven days for example, I have learned that I walk like a man, talk like a man, move like a man, and that for the most part, whilst my appearance is “Subtly Feminine,” whatever that means, that for the most part I should toughen up and be prepared to expect stares, giggles, and comments. I do not pass, I will not pass, and accepting these facts will help me no end.
At the end of one of these conversations, that in reality was really more of a lecture, I was left feeling extremely upset and deflated, and searching for some kind of positive outcome.
I found it, as I often do, in the wisdom of Nietzsche.
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.” –
What Nietzsche tells us here is, “That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” If I can paraphrase a little, I like to think he is saying “Shut up and get on with it !”
So I will……
In the meantime if you want to run me down, please carry on, because, one of us is being authentic, realistic, and happy. I will draw strength from your misery and endure…..
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