In our attempts to be loving to friends and family, we can often fall far short of the mark. Not because we don’t care, but because we somehow believe everyone should have a life just like ours. Our individual lives are just that, individual. What one soul seeks in earthly expression can be far different from another, and each hold beauty and meaning. Let’s take a look to examine some popular ideas that are far from the truth.
Fallacy: Married people with families are happy while single people are miserable.
Fallacy: Joy is found only in materialistic earthly pursuits while spiritual pursuits are joyless.
Fallacy: Women who focus on the home are lucky while those working are unfulfilled.
See each soul as seeking expression and experience. Within that pursuit lies satisfaction and our joy. What makes one person happy may be a prison to someone else, and vice versa. Watch your thoughts and projections on to others. Ask “How is that going?” instead of a judgement that a person must be miserable. Lift them up in the joy of experience and personal growth.
Era Lewis 