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🌟 I went #Blind almost forty years ago. Within a year, I could read grade-2 braille at twenty words a minute. 📚 The only thing I had to read was an Agatha Christie novel – it took up three volumes, delivered in a ‘stinking old sack’ 🛍️ from what I remember.
🎧 I got talking books and never again read any sort of braille at twenty words a minute. Now, I can read the grade one on bleach bottles and tablet boxes… not much else. 🧴💊
#BrailleJourney #TalkingBooks #BlindCommunity #LifeExperience #DisabilityPride #ReadingJourney

If you were a fully-grown adult paying taxes during either the first or second George W. Bush administration, then you’ve seen some shit.

You have lived experience that other generations were either not born yet, lacked neuroplasticity, or aren’t around anymore.

That is what the kids these days call #LifeExperience.

To find the truth you can't try to figure out why they did that thing to you. You have to figure out what you did with the pain when it was offered to you.

How did it affect your behavior, beliefs, choices, understanding of yourself and the world around you?

Below all that is your truth. That's who you are.

You need to find that truth for everything that happened in your life that caused you pain. What you'll find is that it unravels rather quickly because you have a way of managing pain. You used the same strategy every time.

Your truth is in there. It's not in the stories of what happened to you. The external experience doesn't matter. It's all tied up in what you did with the pain you carry around.

You just have to stop telling the stories of what happened to you and start telling the story of what you did with the pain. That's how you'll find the truth in your healing journey.

Love to all,

Della

When your journey isn't enough to motivate you, it's because you haven't accepted it yet.

You're still arguing with it.

You think it should be easier or that you shouldn't have had to go through all those things.

Shift your perception.

Those things got you here.

Those things are the reason why you are who you are.

It's easy to decide that you could have gotten there without all the pain, but would you have done it?

Would you really trade where you are now to avoid the pain?

Deciding that things shouldn't be the way they are is what causes the pain.

Learning to see the journey for just what it is - a path that got you here - frees you from needing to argue with the way you think it should have looked.

The problem is you that you can't change it. It's a losing battle. So if you don't accept it, it's just a stalemate. You can't get there from there.

Think about all the places where you realized that without that thing the next thing wouldn't have happened. Can you find those?

That shows you how interconnected your experience truly is. One thing led to the next thing led to the next thing, and it kept going. If you look at it closely, you'll see that it all makes sense. You just have to get out of the story of victimizing yourself with your own life experience to see it.

Your life may not have turned out the way you thought it should, but it did turn out exactly the way it was supposed to. How do I know that? Because you're here, that's how.

Love to all.

Della