How to Suffer a Little Bit Less
especially when you do something really dumb (but this tip can help anytime)
Remember when palm reading was a thing?
My friends and I would spend hours sitting crossed-legged on the shag carpet tracing the lines on our palms, certain they held the answers to our future. We thought we could see how long we would live, the secrets to our personality, and how many children we would have — never doubting the rose-color tint to our vision.
I'm not sure whether it was the lack of scientific validity or the fact that I once stabbed myself along one of my lifelines that ended my fascination with palmistry, but either way, I've stopped searching for truth in those lines.
Did you know…
(Read on Dear One for the story of what happen when I stabbed my palm and a tool we can use to get through suffering.)