The World Does Not Promise Us Anything

The world does not promise us anything.

This, I have learned.

There are no guarantees.

If you are nice, you will receive nice in return.

If you work at something it will work.

These are ideas we come up with as humans - reciprocity. Our just due.

But really our ideas of what we deserve are often just entitlements. And entitlements are just desires that masquerade as justified needs or wants for our ego’s comfort.

Give yourself (and us) a break you might say. Why the negativity.

This is not about negativity.

There is no judgment in what I write.

I have full compassion and understanding for the part of myself that feels entitled to results.

Despite she wants to stay the same while receiving something different.

I get it. The comfort of what we know - of what pacifies us - is so powerful. Even when it has ceased to be comfortable.

Yes, I said what I said.

A habit is comforting even when it starts to be uncomfortable. Even when we don’t enjoy its consequences.

Our childhood survival mechanisms don’t stop reassuring us they are saving us from danger, despite the danger has passed, and we don’t like how they are impacting our present.

These are the realities of being human.

As is the reality that we often feel entitled to the world changing, despite that we are unwilling to make a change within ourselves.

The world does not promise us anything.

What a revelation that is. Truly.

There is no such thing as entitlement in nature.

In nature, entitlement often equals death.

If you really want something, you can’t only have expectation, or follow principles of manifestation, you have to act.

And even then, action divorced from alignment will have little impact. To achieve results in life that are fulfilling, you have to surrender to the deeper intelligence in life that will keep you on track.

What have I promised recently?

Have I followed through?

Am I acting in alignment with my soul’s truth?

These are questions I am asking myself recently, because this is the truth I am being asked to face:

The world does not promise me anything, but it will respond to my unbroken promise to listen for the truth and to act.

What I receive is entirely dependent on that.

Xo,

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