You Build Your Own Hell

1 month ago

The world hits us with real devils: hunger, loss, sickness, exhaustion. That is just the facts. But we are not content with those. We manufacture new ones. Shame. Envy. The voice that replays a ten-year-old mistake every night. The story that your neighbor’s life proves your worthlessness. We build these devils ourselves, inside our own heads, then wonder why everything hurts. Here is the dark truth we avoid. The real torments come and go. A broken bone heals. A lost job gets replaced. But the devils we manufacture are immortal. We feed them with memory and imagination and comparison. We carry the factory everywhere. Then we hand the product to our children, our partners, our friends. One person’s fear becomes another person’s shame. Hell spreads because we are good at building it. Sit w