The ordeal is not the enemy of a good life. It is the unexpected, unwelcome, unforgettable sculptor of a meaningful one.
When you’re in the middle of a true ordeal, you stop caring about the new car, the social media likes, or the opinion of that one judgmental relative. You revert to the basics: safety, connection, rest, love. Ordeal
An ordeal is a brutal minimalist. It asks: Does this matter when you are exhausted? Does this help when you are grieving? The ordeal is not the enemy of a good life
But looking back, an ordeal compresses the most growth into the shortest calendar span. the social media likes