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Watch a video version on my Youtube Channel. What kind of life are you living? Whose life are you living? I spent the better part of thirty years not living my own. From the outside it looked normal, even good. Grow up, go to school, get a degree, get a job, buy a house, start a family, move into a nice neighborhood. I did the things that felt expected of me, without ever asking who was doing the expecting. That's the part that took me the longest to see. I wasn't just living

Watch the video version at my Youtube Channel. There's a line from a Rebelution song that's been sitting with me: don't you know it's you why you're suffering. Said out of context, that sounds harsh. Said with the right context, it might be the most freeing thing you hear this week. Here's the distinction I want to draw out: pain and suffering are not the same thing. Pain is what happens to you. It's inevitable. It's the skinned knee when you're seven and it's the slow realiz