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Am I Too Much? When I Feel It, Then I Feel It Too Much, When I Think It, Then I Think It Too Much…
I love Carly Rae Jepsen songs, maybe because her first hit came out when I was living in Canada, and I used to listen to it everywhere there. In 2019, I listened over and over again to her album Dedicated.
Sometimes, I believe that I feel more than other people, that I think more than other people. Sometimes, I wish I could be simple. We all know a simple person. A person that feels less, thinks less, and exists more — a simple existence.
Yesterday, I was listening to the podcast On Purpose by Jay Shetty. He is a famous British life coach that used to be a monk. I think he is also pretty big in America. To be honest, I don’t like his hype, and I never listened to anything he had to say previously, but yesterday I decided to see what he was about. I picked the episode about his talk at a Goop event. If hundreds of people paid thousands of dollars to listen to him, I better listen to it for free. So I did.
I still don’t like him. There is something he is not telling us behind this story of from “monk to millionaire”, but he said some interesting things.
First, he was talking about meditation. I had tried to meditate before, and I always failed. Jay says that meditation is about failure; it’s about sitting…
