me: “I feel like I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t gone through those craptastic experiences - because my response to them was to put in the work to learn from them and find a better place to be …”
friend: “Exactly. My friends pounded it into me that no matter what happens, the goal is to learn the lesson that it is trying to teach you. And until I learn the lesson, the thing will keep happening, though maybe in different ways. Learn the lesson, I’m able to move forward. Resist the lesson, and it will be taught again and again in increasingly uncomfortable and destructive ways.”
me: “that’s a devrel diaries post ^”
