You're Clinging to the Wrong Thing

You fear your happiness will slip away in a moment, but that your pain stays with you forever.

Why do you trust your suffering more than your joy? Why does pain feel more permanent, more real, more deserving of your attention than the good moments?

You treat happiness like a house guest who might leave without notice. But pain? Pain gets a permanent address. A key to the front door. Its own bedroom.

Stop Rehearsing Your Exit Strategy

Every time something good happens, you're already calculating when it will end. The promotion you worked for becomes "just luck." The relationship that's going well becomes "too good to be true." The project that's succeeding becomes "probably a fluke."

You're not being "realistic". You're afraid.

You've trained yourself to expect disappointment so thoroughly that you can't sit still in satisfaction. You won't let yourself fully arrive anywhere good because you're too busy planning your escape route.

Your Pain Isn't More Honest Than Your Pleasure

That voice telling you "this won't last" when things go well? It's the same voice that whispers, "This will never end," when things go badly. Neither is true. Both are just fear wearing different masks.

You remember every slight, every failure, every moment of rejection with crystal clarity. But ask you about your wins, your breakthroughs, your moments of genuine connection, and suddenly your memory gets fuzzy.

You're not being more honest by focusing on what's wrong. You're being selective.

Choose to Remember What Matters

Your happiness isn't fragile because you enjoy it fully. Your pain isn't permanent because you feel it deeply.

Both are temporary. Both deserve your attention. But only one deserves your trust.

Stop treating joy like a criminal and pain like a truth-teller. They're both just experiences passing through.

Hold onto the good stuff. Let the rest go.