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RE: Failure is the Greatest Teacher [PTSD Series: Part 6]
Nobody ever talks about how frightening happiness can be.
This resonates. The Puritan mindset runs thick in my family's blood. As soon as someone expresses pleasure in something, the response is
- it's not going to last
- it's not fair you have something other people don't
- you're doing something morally wrong
- you will be punished for this.
So one learns to embrace suffering as a virtue. It is so difficult and important to unlearn this.
The more I learn about our history and psychology, the more I see how damaging Puritanical values has been to our western society. It's frustrating to find some values are embedded into us from a long ago past that we don't even really understand.