Fighting the Ghost of "Should Have" | Aswin Sundharam | Romancelovesophy

3 months ago

Look closely at your pain. Somewhere beneath it, there is a belief—a quiet, unspoken assumption—that life should give you something. That because you worked hard, you deserve success. That because you loved someone, they should stay. That because you were good, the world should be kind in return. But the universe never made this promise. You did. You wrote a contract in your mind, signed it alone, and now you are angry that reality is not following it. You are demanding payment for a debt that was never owed. The tree does not owe you shade. The ocean does not owe you calm waves. The sun does not owe you warmth. They simply are. And so is life. Your suffering is not because life took something from you. It is because you believed life owed you something in the first place. When this