Absolute Strength in Perceived Weakness

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Bravo for following your intuition before it destroyed you 👏

When people walk away from money or stardom or whatever is perceived to be the goal of “success “ in current society and choose their mental health it is more often looked at as weakness but all I see is STRENGTH in this "kid" (and I say this with utmost respect because so young to be so wise ) and anyone who chooses peace over chaos or being bound to toxicity because of a payout or perceived financial security.

We stay in jobs that are miserable for us or linked to people who wear out our soul because of many types of fears; ignoring the real damage that state of fear is doing.

This last week seeing someone I admire take his life when I am in my own state of working through difficulty with this time of year hit especially heavy, it’s been haunting me all week. Yet again I don’t understand but understand this darkness that leads to this, yes perhaps a celebrity figure in my life but his family invited us into their home during covid several times a week for a live dance workout to keep spirits up. I saw him get cast off a show and them come back another season as a victor having done the work necessary.…. And I wonder if the pressure or wheel he was keeping up with had been let go and had he paid more attention to his mental health would he be here now and not robbed himself of so many more years with his beautiful family ? Not robbed his family of so many more beautiful years with him? And how much pain he had struggled through to get to that point. Why couldn’t the beauty of his heart and the love around him extinguish the pain ? Why does this overtake so many ? 🙏♥️

The days of mental health shaming need to be over, everyone will struggle at some point. Anxiety . Depression. Feeling down. Heartbreak . Empathy is required now. And it starts within us FIRST , towards ourselves First, yes , it is our own shaming that allows all the other ignorant non-empathetic voices to attach.

We all know the holiday seasons amplifies this for many … be kind to everyone you encounter and if you can’t be kind then just be quiet 🙏♥️

RIP:

Steven “Twitch” Boss

Anne Heche

Robin Williams

Heath ledger

Anthony Bourdain

Kate Spade

Chester Bennington

Whitney Houston

Elvis Presley

*these are people come to my mind first and there are so many others if I stop to REALLY recollect 🙏

Fatos Osmani

Zyrafete Osmani

*these are the people that come to My heart first that I will never ever forget , that I journey with and will carry their shame and pain and strength within me until my last day♥️ they are my heroes. I watched them struggle while the world outside them just saw their beauty. Why do the most beautiful people carry such a deep internal struggle, maybe that’s where their light comes from ✨ their tussle with all that is wrong in the world around them and not being able to make Peace with it, but the battle shines outward. Their battle for all of us. Some of us just see it so deeply while others move effortlessly around. Neither right or wrong.

May we learn to rest in peace in life not in untimely deaths 🙏♥️ support one another with love not judgement 🙏 or just remain quiet in our awareness of our own lack of understanding or lack of empathy. If you can’t understand this concept of struggle then please remain quiet and educate yourself . What we fear most will Touch us, what we judge most will also touch us. No one goes through life untouched 😔🙏♥️

May we truly stop and Reflect as we all try to understand our own journey. When we can't we will be forced to. The world can pause collectively when we are more out of sync then in sync - we've just experienced this... it's all for our collective-ness:connectiveness.

👏 Tyrell may you become the example not the exception🙏