Status Updates From Nothing Special: Living Zen

“I ask a question I’d been practicing for a moment like this: ‘Doctor, will I ever play the guitar again?’ The doctor shakes his head. Pablo and Elena bite the insides of their cheeks.” Slay.

Part of what we’re here to learn is to be with discomfort and inconvenience. In moderate degrees, pain is a great teacher. Without some degree of discomfort, difficulty, even tragedy can be great teachers, especially as we get older.