I have found this to be a very powerful quote this week, by Cheryl Strayed:
"You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding"
Now I don't think anyone has an obligation to anything, but the quote speaks to me about what we can and can't control. I think lots of us struggle with a sense of entitlement, that our lives should be a certain way and it feels unfair that it's not. If we could let go of that, how much easier we'd find things. I definitely have cards I wouldn't have picked for myself but the more I can accept that these are my cards and there's no point wishing I had different ones, and indeed celebrate the ones I have, the better my experience of life becomes. And I do have some brilliant cards in my hand :-)
What in your own deck excites you?
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