It Is Not You. Something Is Against You

I have watched people carry that conclusion for thirty years. I would like to interrupt it early for you.

Some of what goes wrong is just life. Things break. People are tired. Nobody is against you at the supermarket.

But some of it is not that, and children work this out long before anybody explains it to them. There is something that does not want you to become what you are becoming.

And here is the part that matters. That is not a statement about how bad you are. It is a statement about how much you are worth interfering with.

Nobody bothers to stop somebody who is going nowhere.

I am not telling you to be afraid. I want to be very plain about that. You are not being hunted and there is nothing in your room. You are on a side that is already winning, and the fight was decided a long time before you turned up.

I am telling you that when it is hard, that is not proof that something is wrong with you.

The problem was never that you are not enough. Something has been working against you, and the reason is that you matter.