Third thing: People who want to rule their lives.
They say being happy is complicated. But it’s not.
It’s people who complicate things. Being happy is easier than you think.
It’s having enough with what you have and not envy others. It is to have few friends but of quality. It is to be able to dance under the storm and to take advantage of every sunny day. It is to be present and not to lose yourself chasing other people’s dreams.
It is to know how to discern that pleasure and happiness are similar at first, but in the end, pleasure enslaves and hurts, and happiness liberates and has the power to heal.
Don’t get me wrong, being happy is hard. It requires conscious effort and living an intentional life. But it’s not as hard as they would have you believe.
This is something that highly spiritual people know very well. And that’s why they are happy most of the time, even when they face some adversity.
But even so, highly spiritual people have daily dramas that can ruin their day.
Especially these three things.
First thing: Being used as an “Emotional-WC” by their friends
No one realizes the energy cost highly spiritual people assume by listening to someone else dramas.
When people share their fears and miseries with an HSP (Highly spiritual person), they feel better, but the HSP absorbs all that shit by osmosis.
Some people get used to feeling good after telling their things to an HSP. And in that case, it becomes routine that ruins every day of their HSP friend.
Deep down, these people don’t want advice from an HSP; they have just discovered that after sharing their sorrows with an HSP (and not with others), they feel better.
These people have metaphorically found in their highly spiritual friends a roll of toilet paper to clean themselves with.
Second thing: Not to be taken seriously
Mile Davis once said, “People underestimate the time you have to play an instrument to sound with your own voice.”
Highly spiritual people have sacrificed tons of time in pursuit of knowing themselves, breaking conventions, deconstructing themselves, and having their own thoughts and criteria.
Only to be labeled as eccentric and crazy.
A lot of people don’t take HSPs seriously. They are seen as kids that never grew up. And that feeling of shame that people put on HSPs makes anyone’s day a bitter one.
Highly spiritual are usually serious people, educated, and know what they discuss. If they don’t know something, they don’t speak. — HSPs don’t need to feed their ego.
The thing is that highly spiritual people know that, as Jiddu Krishnamurti said, “Being well adjusted to a profoundly sick society is not a good way to measure health,” but it’s a bummer to always feel like the oddball wherever they go.
Third thing: People who want to rule their lives.
Most highly spiritual people have someone obsessed with changing their lives—people who always have something to offer them to get them out of the hippie-dippie way of life.
These people usually offer them jobs that HSPs don’t want, introduce them to potential romantic partners that will get them on the right track, or any other action to organize their lives.
The problem with this type of people, whom I call “the planners,” is that they project their fears on highly spiritual people.
And that often ends up ruining the day. Not because their proposals are pushy and they are heavy-handed. But because they are people who have a close bond with a highly spiritual person: a mother, a childhood friend, a sibling.
They use their tips as armor to protect themselves from a reality they do not want to see in an HSP.
It is as if, with their unsolicited help, they try to put a towel over the highly spiritual person in order not to see the naked truth 🙂
A virtual hug
AG