What are you learning lately?
What I’ve been learning is that:
a) At any given moment, everybody’s got some kind of struggle
b) Those struggles are usually kept hidden
c) Those hidden struggles actually have a better ability to connect us to each other than anything else
This lines up so well with what Kevin Love recently wrote on an article I retweeted. It should be required reading for everybody. "Everyone is going through something we can’t see."
“The reality is that we probably have a lot in common with what our friends and colleagues and neighbors are dealing with. So I’m not saying everyone should share all their deepest secrets – not everything should be public and it’s every person’s choice. But creating a better environment for talking about mental health… that’s where we need to get to.”
The past month hasn’t exactly been the easiest, but I’ve also heard things that other people are going through that remind me that there’s no room to be bitter, and so much need for compassion.