Why Certain Things in Life Simply Have To Be Experienced and Never Explained

We are meant to experience every emotion attached to our experiences. Good and bad. Life is about experiencing the moment in real time, as it is, not how we think it should be. Often times these experiences won’t make sense and there will be no explanation.

Social media has created an atmosphere where we are constantly being told to dissect our experiences and pick apart how we respond to them. To replay conversations in our head over and over again until it reveals something personal to us. To overthink every imaginary scenario. To shadowbox every invisible ghost. To be panic driven when things don’t go our way. That if something isn’t perfect, then I must be doing it wrong. That you have it tough. Your family sucks. You were mistreated.

We are being groomed daily to feel that everything and everyone we come in contact with is some sort of personal assignment or battle that must be won. This is why we find ourselves always asking questions like: Am I smart? Why is this happening? Am I responsible for this? Do I deserve it? Why am I sad today when I was just happy yesterday? An endless cycle of mental exhaustion that apparently we are to lean on search engines and feeds to provide us with answers.

Allow me to remind you we are meant to experience life. We are meant to experience every emotion attached to our experiences, both good and bad. Life is about experiencing the moment in real time, as it is, not how we think it should be. Often times these experiences won’t make sense and there will be no explanation and sometimes there will be. Both are to be accepted so that it can be understood that you are human. Once upon a time this was thought to be called growing up. Today they are calling it trauma.

This is why there is so much struggle with interpreting adversity. We are mentally and emotionally overwhelmed because we have forgotten how to identify life experience as being exactly that and nothing more. You only have one job and that is to make it count. As long as you don’t turn your back on yourself, you’ll be fine.