Life’s Invisible Hand
As I look back, I am struck by a terrifying and beautiful realization: what I once called rejection was, in truth, an invisible hand pushing me off a cliff where I finally learned how to fly. We spend our lives clinging to doors with such desperate force that our knuckles turn white, weeping when they remain locked. We weep because we think the locked door is a judgment on our worth. How naive. How deeply human. Sometimes, the universe is kinder to us than we are to ourselves. It slams the door in our face not to punish us, but … Continue reading Life’s Invisible Hand